It all started on April 27, 1891, when Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich II — heir to the Russian throne then held by his father, Alexander III — stepped onto the docks at Nagasaki Bay. The ...
On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife, and his five children were woken up before dawn, led into a basement, and shot by a firing squad. Their bodies were burned, doused in acid, and ...