Also murdered that night were members of the imperial entourage who had accompanied them: court physician Eugene Botkin ; lady-in-waiting Anna Demidova ; footman Alexei Trupp ; and head cook Ivan Kharitonov.
Following the February Revolution in , the Romanovs and their servants had been imprisoned in the Alexander Palace before being moved to Tobolsk , Siberia, in the aftermath of the October Revolution. They were next moved to a house in Yekaterinburg, near the Ural Mountains , before their execution in July The Bolsheviks initially announced only Nicholas's death.
In , amateur sleuth Alexander Avdonin discovered the burial site. In , eighty years after the executions, the remains of the Romanovs were reinterred in a state funeral in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. In , after considerable and protracted legal wrangling, the Russian prosecutor general 's office rehabilitated the Romanov family as "victims of political repressions".
According to the official state version of the Soviet Union, ex-tsar Nicholas Romanov, along with members of his family and retinue, were executed by firing squad by order of the Ural Regional Soviet. A investigation concluded that, despite the opening of state archives in the post-Soviet years, no written document has been found which proves Lenin or Sverdlov ordered the executions.
He was placed under house arrest with his family by the Provisional Government , and the family was surrounded by guards and confined to their quarters. In August , after a failed attempt to send the Romanovs to the United Kingdom, where the ruling monarch, King George V , was the mutual first cousin of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra , Alexander Kerensky 's provisional government evacuated the Romanovs to Tobolsk , Siberia , allegedly to protect them from the rising tide of revolution.
