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If you are a revolutionary planning to seize control of a country and change everything that currently exists, you must eliminate the possibility of returning to the old ways.

The only way to prevent a return to the autocratic rule of the Tsars was to eliminate them all, the Tsar, and all heirs and potential heirs to the throne.

The killing of the Romanovs was a political necessity of the time if Russia was to become a "workers" state.

Although it has been a point of debate ever since 1918, and many books have been written and movies made on the subject, it has now been conclusively proven by DNA evidence that Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their four daughters and one son, and a number of other people, were all killed and the bodies burned.

Fortunately, many of the Romanov relatives outside the immediate family escaped Russia to other countries where their descendants still live now.

Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and their five children were canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, without opposition.

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The family of nicholas the second was killed by bolshevik radicals in the middle of the night during the Russian revolution by a firing squad.

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They were murdered in the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Siberia, Russia.

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