In his book, The Last Tsar, Edvard Radzinsky describes a very interesting viewpoint of the life and death of Nicholas Alexandrovich, the last Russian Tsar. Radzinsky"s illustration of this ill-fated monarch follows the diaries of Nicholas from their beginning on March 1, 1881, to the final entry on July 16, 1918.1 Radzinsky mainly goes over pre-marital relationship between Nicholas and Alexandra, the medical condition of Nicholas" son, Alexei, and the imprisonment and execution of Nicholas and his family. The relationship between Nicholas II and Alexandra began in 1884. Alexandra, the daughter of Louis IV, the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, a...
realized there would be no photograph, when Yakov Yurovsky, a member of the Uralites, read out the family"s death sentence. As soon as he had finished, the shots began and minutes later, the family and their servants lay dead in a pool of their own blood. They loaded up the bodies into a truck and buried them in a pre-selected gravesite.

Thus, within a time span of just over a year, both the rule and lives of the imperial family were ended by revolutionaries, and one of the greatest dynasty"s the world has ever known came to an end.