The Cheka and a soldiers of the Red Army commanded by a Lieutenant Jacob Yurovksy. Yurovsky fired the first shot with his American-made M-l9ll Colt automatic. a large quantity of these arms were purchased by Czarist Russia for police and special service ( like tank men and armored-car crews) the men at Colt Firearms never dreamed they would figure in the sickening Family-Plan homicide.
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Czar Nichaols was descended from the roayl family of Romanovs. The Communists executed him and his entire family, thus ending the 200-year reign of the Romanov family in Russia---the longest reign of any family in Europe.
They were in the Romanov family dynasty.
Romanov All Russian Tsars after Michael I claimed the name Romanov, and it was politically acknowledged. However, according to the technical laws of descent, the right to the name Romanov was lost after the reign of Catherine the Great due to marriages by Empresses. The legitimate name of the family was Holstein-Gottorp, sometimes called Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov.
The Romanov family ruled over Russia from 1613 when Michael Romanov was chosen to be Tsar after the Time of Troubles to 1917 when Tsar Nicholas Romanov II abdicated.
Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.