Bolshevik troops executed Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. Bringing the Russian Romanov dynasty to an end.
Also killed that night were members of the imperial entourage who had accompanied them. The details of the execution and the location of their final resting place remained a Soviet secret for more than six decades. In 1926 the Soviet regime acknowledged the murders of the entire family. In 1979, amateur detective Alexander Avdonin located a burial site near Yekaterinburg, Russia, that contained the remains of the Tsar, Tsarina, and three of their daughters. The bodies were not exhumed at that time due to political sensitivities within the Soviet Union. In 1991, following the fall of the Soviet Union, a state-sponsored team of investigators exhumed the remains. In 1993 DNA analysis confirmed the remains were those of the Romanov family. A separate grave containing the remains of the two missing children, Alexei and Maria, was found in 2007.
