greatwar-1914: April 27, 1918 - Romanovs Sent to Ekaterinburg Pictured - Citizen Romanov and his fam
greatwar-1914:April 27, 1918 - Romanovs Sent to EkaterinburgPictured - Citizen Romanov and his family perch on top of the Ipatiev House, their last residence. After his abdication the Tsar and his family had oriingally gone to the Winter Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, until the Kerensky government moved them east to the Siberian city of Tobolsk. There they lived in isolation, but relative comfort, until the October Revolution drove the Provisional Government from power. The Bolsheviks took over watching the captive Tsar and conducted a much stricter regime over him and his family. Guards referred to him as “Citizen Romanov” and forbade him from wearing officer’s epaulets. They also made lewd remarks to his family. Finally they cut down the family’s rations and forced them to send away most of their servants. The Bolsheviks gained more power in the spring of 1918 but also began to face considerable threats from a growing counterrevolutionary movement. Fearing plots to re-instate the Tsar, Lenin moved the family to Ektarinburg, where they were kept under a much tighter guard at the Ipatiev House. A Maxim machine gun was housed above the Tsar and Tsarina’s room to prevent any escape. The hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei was too ill to travel with them, and remained with his sisters in Tobolsk until May. -- source link
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