How the Romanov Family Died

Look at this photograph. A family of seven, dressed immaculately, posed with the kind of rigid formality that only people who believe they will rule forever actually bother with. That is Nicholas the Second, Tsar of all the Russias, his wife Alexandra, and their five children. Now look at the other image. A basement room in Yekaterinburg, the walls pockmarked and scarred. The same family ended up in that room. The question this video is going to answer is not simply who pulled the trigger, because that part is documented and frankly not the interesting part. The real question is this: how does a family that governed one sixth of the entire surface of the Earth end up cornered in a basement with no army, no allies, no escape route, and no warning that came in time to matter?