The Romanovs were in protective custody of the Privisional Government and then under arrest by the Bolsheviks. They had been moved around several times to different places by both governments. While in custody of the Bolsheviks, they were moved to the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinberg (city of Catherine) which is in Siberia, not in the Ural mountains. This is where they were murdered in July 1918.
I couldn't remember the name of the western Siberian town where the provisional government first sent the Imperial family. it just now popped back into place in my mind: Toblosk. Here they were accorded the courtesy of a former tsar and imperial highnesses. It was only the historically fatal arrival of a telegram from Lenin to the Moscow Soviet that prompted the families removal from Toblosk to Ekaterinburg by much more hostile "guards". Thus diverting the advance of the White Army (loyalists' to the Empire) in efforts to liberate the Imperial family and restore the sovereignty. This answer below is good yet too broad and opens the question to myriad threads. Accordingly I've made a few geographical corrections. Please also note that DNA evidence (taken from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) in 1995 conclusively confirmed that the Imperial family were all killed. Simply put: Nicholas II, last tsar of Russia, his wife, children and a few retainers from Tsarkoe Selo (the imperial court) were quietly packed off; late 1917. They were murdered with explicit orders from the Moscow Soviet 17 July 1918, in the Ukranian town of Ekaterinburg (seat of the Ural Soviet). The Romanov family was held in Protective Custody in Ekaterinberg in Siberia, not in the Ural mountains. The family was imprisoned from 1917 until July of 1918, when it was assumed the entire family had been executed. There is some controversy about whether the entire family was killed or not; that, however, is another subject entirely.
The Romanov family were important in that they had much influence in Russia. From 1600 to 1917, a Romanov ruled Russia. The end came in 1917 as last Russian Tsar was overthrown in 1917. Later that year the Bolshevik's took Russia out of WW 1.
Copernicus was never imprisoned.
Czar Nichaols was descended from the roayl family of Romanovs. The Communists executed him and his entire family, thus ending the 200-year reign of the Romanov family in Russia---the longest reign of any family in Europe.
Mikhail Romanov was the first Romanov Tsar, being crowned at age 16 and ruling from 1613 to his death in 1645. The Romanov dynasty ruled for 314 years from 1613 to 1917 the year of the Russian Revolution.
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The Romanov dynasty, ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917. The first Romanov tsar was Michael Romanov. Michael inherited the crown after the "time of troubles" by an assembly of officials representing every city and town in all of Russia. History would make famous the last Tsar; Nicholas II. Nicholas along with his wife and children were murdered by the Bolsheviks on July 17 1918 in Ekaterinburg located in the Russian Ural region. The Last Tsar was actually not Nicholas the II, but his brother Michael. Michael refused the crown after Nicholas II abdicated as sovereign and also on behalf of his son, Alexis. The three hundred year old house of Romanov began with a Michael and so it ended with a Michael.
Sir Thomas More was imprisoned in the Tower of London in England. He was held there in confinement for over a year before he was executed in 1535.
It is difficult to determine an exact number, but estimates suggest that thousands of people are wrongfully imprisoned each year worldwide. Factors such as flawed legal systems, corruption, and lack of access to proper legal representation contribute to wrongful convictions.
After Marco polo returned from Xanadu ( serving as a Special Envoy to the Khan),to Venice, his family was robbed of the bulk of its accumulated wealth by fellow Genoese, and Marco himself was captured and imprisoned for one year.