On the night of July 16–17, 1918, in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, the 300-year reign of the Romanov dynasty ended in a hail of gunfire and bayonet thrusts. The Bolshevik executioners killed Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, their four daughters—Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia—and their young son, Alexei. For decades, […]