![]() ![]() ![]() Subsequent DNA testing confirmed the identities of the Nicholas, Alexandra and three of their daughters. The remains of the family were discovered in a mass grave in the Ural Mountains in 1991. There they were shot by firing squad and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik troops. On the night of July 16, 1918, the family was ordered to dress and go down to the cellar of the Ipatiev House where they were lined up as if posing for a family photograph. Local authorities were ordered to prevent a rescue of the Romanovs, and after a secret meeting of the Yekaterinburg Soviet, the imperial family was sentenced to death. By July, the White army was advancing on Yekaterinburg. Despite her wealth of adulation and her royal blood, Maria Romanov and her sisters had a surprisingly spartan young life. After the revolution, civil war between the Bolshevik “Red” army and the anti-Bolshevik “White” Russian forces broke out in June. In Four Sisters, however, acclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport puts them centre stage and offers readers the most authoritative account yet of the Grand. In April and May 1918, members of the Romanov family were relocated to Ipatiev House-a merchant’s house in Yekaterinburg. Olga wanted to slap me but I ran away from her swinish hand…” – Extract from a letter written by Anastasia to her father. ![]() Tatiana and Olga are here… I am sitting and digging in my nose with my left hand. ![]()
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