July 17th

On this day - July 17th 1918 - The last tsar of Russia was executed 

On this day in 1918 was the whole family of Tsar Nicholas II executed. Nicholas II had ruled in Russia between 1894 and his forced abdication in 1917. He was known Nicholas the Bloody  by his political enemies. He spent the time between his abdication in 1917 and his execution in 1918 in prison, although he tried to go into exile in UK. On the morning of July 17th in 1918 was the family told to get dressed o they could be brought to safety. A firing squad was waiting for the family in the basement and the whole family was shot and killed, together with four non-members of the family who had chosen to stay with them in their imprisonment.