Stay Signed In
Do you want to access your site more quickly on this computer? Check this box, and your username and password will be remembered for two weeks. Click logout to turn this off.
Stay Safe
Do not check this box if you are using a public computer. You don't want anyone seeing your personal info or messing with your site.
L-R: Tsar, Tatiana, Anastasia, Maria, Tsarina & Olga
Maria, Alexei, Tsarina & Anastasia
Romanov girls
Anastasia
Romanov children
...Murder of the Romanov family....
On July, 17, 1918, shortly after midnight, Yacob Yurovsky, the head Bolshevik captor of the royal family awoke his prisoners and asked them to go down in the house basement to take shelter. He said that the white army were encircling the city and that battle was imminent.
After getting themselves ready, the prisoners went down in the house basement under Yurovsky's leadership to a cellar room where he asked them to wait so that he could prepare their departure towards a safer place.
Outside, the Romanovs could hear an engine noise. Yurovsky disappeared.
For the prisoners, the waiting was prolonged. Aleksandra asked for some chairs. Someone brought them two. Suddenly, Yurovsky entered the room with 10 militia, armed with rifles and pistols, who formed a killing rank.
Yurovsky claims to have said something like "Nicholas Alexandrovitch, your friends have tried to save you but they did not succeed and we are obliged to put you to death".
Sometime shortly after midnight, on July 17, 1918 the Romanov family were killed by Yurovsky (Bolshevik Commander)& 10 armed Bolshevik malitia.
Bolshevicks threw the bodies down into the flooded collapsed pit mine but there was not enough water and the bodies could still be seen. Then, they threw tree branches in the pit mine in order to hide the bodies.
The next morning, at about eleven o'clock, "military representative" Philip Golochtchekine and the local Soviet president Bieloborodov came to inspect the work.
They found carnage traces visible and the pit mine not deep enough. Yurovsky and his men had to hide Romanovs' bodies somewhere else.
During the night, at about half past four, Yurovsky and his men brought the bodies out from the pit mine and tried to burn some of them (Those of the Czar, Alexei, Aleksandra and Botkin). But bodies were damp and could not burn.
They started to dig a hole, quickly put the bodies in it, recovered it with wood planks and left the place, expecting to finish the work later.
But events did not leave them the time to end their task because some days after, on 25 th July, Ekaterinburg felt to the advancing white army...
Exactly 80 years after their execution (by Bolshevicks in Ipatiev house July 17, 1918) ... on July 17 of 1998 the last Tsar of Russia and his family were buried in the crypt of St Petersburg's St Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Addressing the burial ceremony, President Boris Yeltsin described the murder of the Romanovs as one of the most shameful pages in Russian history and urged Russians to close a "bloody century" with repentance.
11 years after having been in charge of the destruction of the place of their death, the Russian president welcomed the Romanov family into their last home…
The Romanov remains now entombed in a dignified manner
The Tsar comes home
Nicholas
Alexandra
In memory of Nicholas & Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei
♥ Tatiana ♥
29 May 1897 - 17 July 1918
♥ Anastasia ♥
5 June 1901 - 17 July 1918
♥ Maria ♥
14 June 1899 - 17 July 1918
♥ Alexei ♥
12 August 1904 - 17 July 1918
♥ Olga ♥
3 Nov 1895 - 17 July 1918
Tsar Michael Theodorovich of Russia (1613-45) founder of the Romanov Dynasty
Prince ALbert Duke of York (King George Vl)
Tsar Nicholas Aleksandrovich Romanov
1st cousins
Daughter of King George Vl
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (Queen Elizabeth 2)
1st cousin of Lord Louis Mountbatten
Lord Louis Mountbatten
(Christened Louis Francis Arthur Victor Nicholas Battenburg)
my family comes in from the line of Lord Louis Mountbatten
When Nicky and George were together, often they were mistaken for each other, often times, much to their amusement. Bottom line, blood may be thicker than water but it is not as thick as oatmeal as proven when George refused his cousin Nicky exile in England.
Louis Mountbatten
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Born 25 June 1900 Windsor Castle
Died 27 August 1979 Ireland (murdered)
Descendant of Lord Louis Mountbatten
Jonty
Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb
August 27 - For more than 30 years, Earl Mountbatten of Burma had spent every August in the quiet fishing village of Mullaghmore, County Sligo in Ireland. He and his family were familiar faces and well-liked by villagers with whom they mixed freely. He never felt the need of a bodyguard.
It was the middle of the morning when Earl Mountbatten and members of his family drove from their Irish home, Classiebawn Castle, down to the harbor and set out for a day's fishing in their 30-foot boat, Shadow V.
The boat had hardly left the harbour mouth when it was ripped apart by an IRA bomb. Earl Mountbatten, aged 79 was killed instantly. His grandson, Nicholas, aged 14, and a 17 year old boatsman also died in the blast. Lord Mountbatten's daughter, Lady Brabourne, her son Timothy and her mother-in-law, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, were all said to be "critical" in an intensive care ward.
Eyewitnesses described a roaring explosion which blew the boat high in the air, smashing it into tiny pieces of wood. In a statement tonight, the IRA claimed responsibility for "the execution of Lord Louis Mountbatten" and said that the boat had been blown up by remote control.
The bomb contained 50 pounds of explosives. The Royal Family was said to be "deeply shocked" by the murder of Earl Mountbatten, a cousin of the Queen.
Burke's Peerage records "The Mountbattens are a branch of one of the oldest traceable families in Christendom, the House of Brabant". Certainly their line can be traced back to the 9th century and to Charlemagne. At that time their lands were in Brabant and Lorraine and it was not until the 13th century that the son of the reigning Duke of Brabant inherited the Principality of Hesse where his descendants continued to rule until the German Revolution of 1918.
Prince Alexander of Hesse was the third son of Grand Duke Louis 11 of Hesse. In 1851 he married Countess Julie of Hauke who was created Princess of Battenberg. Their eldest son was Prince Louis of Battenberg.
In 1884 he married his cousin, Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke Louis of Hesse and the Grand Duchess Alice, Queen Victoria's second daughter. They had four children, the youngest of whom was Prince Louis Francis of Battenberg. When the British Royal Family took the name of Windsor in 1917, Prince Louis renounced his title and the name of Battenberg. He took the name Mountbatten and was granted the title Marquess of Milford Haven. His wife Victoria renounced her royal title at the same time. Louis and Victoria became the first Mountbattens. Their younger son became Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Lord Louis received the title of Earl Mountbatten of Burma for services in the war and in India. Since he had no son he was granted the privilege of passing the earldom to his elder daughter, Patricia. She will in turn be succeeded by her eldest son, the Hon. Norton Knatchbull, now Lord Brabourne, a television and film producer, who inherited Broadlands on his grandfather's death. In October, 1979 he married Penelope Eastwood in Romsey Abbey. They live there with their children Nicholas and Alexandra. Their other daughter, Leonora, died of cancer in October 1991 when she was five years old.
