by Virginia Gaces

Created on: October 03, 2008   Last Updated: February 11, 2009

The story of the death of the Romanov family had been given different versions and twists by people throughout history based on the interest that they were protecting. Most of these stories had the purpose of hiding some gruesome facts that would reflect badly on the Russian people.

In the entire Russian history of Ruling Royal families, the death of the Romanov family was a story that had bordered on intrigue, apathy and ruthlessness.

But as they say, truth will always prevail and will eventually be laid bare. After several years of numerous unfounded stories, Yeltsin, in 1998, finally revealed and confirmed the astonishing and horrible truths about the murder of the Romanov family and how they were killed without proper trial of whatever crimes they may have had committed.

The father, Nicholas II, the Tsar of Russia then from 1872 to 1918, was a Tsar that had been perceived as uncaring and indifferent to the plight of his people. This is because he had refused to listen to his people's plaintive calls for the alleviation of their poverty and unrest.

The Romanov family was headed by the father, Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna, his wife, (the Empress of Russia) and their five children Olga Nicholovna, Tatiana Nicholovna, Marie Nicholovna, Anastasia Nicholovna and the only son, Alexei Nicolaevich Tsarevich.

The Tsar most often, ignored the cries of his impoverished people. When riots occurred because of lack of food, he would go someplace instead to be far from the unrest.

His love for his family also had made him attend to them more, instead of attending to the affairs of his country. His youngest son had hemophilia (a blood disorder which needed constant therapeutic measures) and the Tsar spent time with him more often.

When the Russian people came to know about this, they no longer cared as their personal misery clouded all their feelings of empathy, especially for a person who was indifferent to their miserable plight.

It was believed that the turning point in the lives of the Romanov family was when Rasputin (Grigori Yefimovich), a monk, entered the picture. He was able to momentarily "cure" the illness of the Tsar's son and therefore had become an honorary member of the family. Alexandra became close to monk because of this and so did the Tsar.

The Tsar went on to institute badly planned moves; like the war with Japan in which Russia surrendered, his inattentiveness to the riot of his people at St. Petersburg, and many more actions that showed his lack of concern

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