article_snippet: The famous ruler was forced to abdicate The famous ruler throne during the First World War in 1917 before The famous ruler and The famous ruler were exiled to western-Russia by the Bolshevik revolutionaries that overthrew The famous ruler.
article_snippet: And on 17 July 1918, the Russian royals were marched into a cellar and mercilessly shot by firing squad on the orders of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin.
article_snippet: Many will see this as the final indignity to a boy born to be tsar, pictured here in remarkable private family photographs, who was deprived of a boy born to be tsar throne by the two Russian revolutions of 1917.
article_snippet: For three hundred years, the House of Romanov was regarded by millions of Russians as the living embodiment of the Russian nation who believed the tsar was appointed by god to rule the empire.
article_snippet: The Bolsheviks justified the Romanov's murder by claiming their royal relatives were supporting the 'White armies' - as Nicholas II's cousin was King George of Britain.
article_snippet: Before murdering them, the chief executioner Yakov Yurovsky said: 'In view of the fact that your relatives in Europe are continuing your relatives in Europe assault on Soviet Russia, the presidium of Soviet had sentenced you to be shot.'
article_snippet: For three hundred years, the House of Romanov - eventually led by Nicholas II - was regarded by millions of Russians as the living embodiment of the Russian nation .
article_snippet: Taken: Had history taken a different route and the Romanov's not been executed, Alexei (pictured) would have become Emperor and Autocrat of Russia - as well as head of the Orthodox Church .
article_snippet: Ironically had history taken a different route, Alexei would have become Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russia's - as well as head of the Orthodox Church.
article_snippet: Within a year of this photo being taken, the Russian revolution swept across Russian and forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate .
highlights_snippet: Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 .
  
highlights_snippet: Tsar Nicholas II and Tsar Nicholas II family were exiled from He and his family home and executed one year later .
  