Good morning all & OTD in 1918, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra & their 5 children were all murdered by the Bolsheviks-they were each shot, bayoneted & clubbed to death in a Yekaterinburg basement by the Red Guards.
The Romanovs are Martyrs in the Russian Church.
The Romanov princesses who would serve stints as Russian Army nurses in field hospitals near the Russian Stavka in the Great War before they were all murdered with their parents, the Tsar & Tsarina, by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
In the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris, there is a shrine erected by the White Russian exiles to the martryred Romanovs.
This was a White Russian holy card for the Romanov family from the Vatican's Russian collection ... may they rest in peace.

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