on a journey to the past.

In the summer of 1918, on the night of July 16, the Imperial family were awakened, hurried out of bed and ordered into the cellar of the house where they had been held in captivity by the Ural Regional Soviet in Ekaterinburg. While the Tsar, the Tsaritsa and the Tsarevich sat in the chairs with their daughters gathered around them, an armed squad headed by Commisar Yurovksky suddenly entered the cellar. Their jailer, the commissar, announced that they all were to be shot. Immediately the men opened fire and continued shooting until the Tsar's entire family and four retainers were massacred. Legend has it that the second to last to die was the frail Tsarevich, and that the last one was his sister Anastasia (Aronson, 235). But did she die?

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