The Romanovs

Hi!! Have you ever seen the movie 'Anastasia'? Well, this is the movie which tell the Romanovs' story, but with a magical explanation about the end of this powerful dinasty. Actually, the true story about the Imperial Russian Family it's very different.

The Tsar Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra had four daughters: Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and a man, the youngest Alexsei, who was heir to the Russian throne, but with a terrible health problem, he was a hemophilliac. As a result of the Alexsei's disease, the Tsar's wife became increasingly fanatical about her religion and his youngest son, this ultimately lead her to seek help from the peasant Gregory Efivich Rasputin. To the Tsar and his family, Rasputin was a hero, a holy man and their savior, because he was the only one who could calm Alexsei's bleeding. But to the rest of Russia, Rasputin caused terrible dissent and disruption. When the Tsar went to the front in the first Wold War his wife began to seek Rasputin's advice to appoint ministers to the Duma.

Soon, there was a plot to kill Rasputin, by Prince Felix Yussoupov. After Rasputin's death, Alexandra continued to choose ministers for Nicholas, and ultimately, this lead to a revolution.

On March 7th, 1917, Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in favor of his brother. Shortly afterwords, the Imperial Family was moved from house arrest in Tsarskoe Selo to Tolbosk in Siberia. On route to Moscow, Alexandra, Nicholas and their daughter Marie, were captured by the Soviet Bolsheviks, who hijacked their train. The rest of the family were sent to the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. There in the wee hours of the morning of July 16, 1918, the Romanovs were executed by the Ekaterinburg Soviets. They were buried in the woods near an old mine.

Throughout the years, the cinematographic industry has used the story of The Romanovs for diverse movies, but now, with historical facts, if we see a film about the last Russian dinasty, we will know that so realistic is the script.