The Ruin of the Romanov Regency The Romanov family, a great and prestigious lineage, ruled over Russia from 1613 to 1917. Although it had, in the past, overcome all types of dilemmas, the Romanov family was to fall, at last, in 1917 with the resignation of Tsar Nicholas the Second. After the Russo-Japanese war of 1905, the Russian army was severely weakened and, as a result, the Russian government was forced to endure the restraints of a cautious foreign …showed first 75 words of 924 total…

…showed last 75 words of 924 total…them. The Romanovs and a few servants were led into a basement under the pretense of having their picture taken: instead, they were lined up and shot execution-style by eleven guards who then took the bodies and burned them. This brutal murder was very popular in the public eye and many rumours surfaced about whether or not any of the Romanov family members had survived. This murder was the true end of the Romanov family.