Tsar Nicholas II and his son Aleksei sawing wood while in captivity. They were killed a few months later. (31/54)

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Tsar Nicholas II and his son Aleksei sawing wood while in captivity. They were killed a few months later.

The diary of a senior Soviet leader recalls that Vladimir Lenin made the decision to have the Romanovs executed, after concluding “we shouldn’t leave the [anti-Bolshevik forces] a living emblem to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.”