He got to Ekaterinburg, but was recognized as an officer ... Twenty-four hours later, at Alapayevsk, six more captive Romanovs and two of their faithful followers met an even harder death.

In the night between the 16th and 17th of July 1918 the family of Russia's last Emperor, Nicolas II, was killed in Ekaterinburg. RBTH investigates the identities and lives of the killers of the tsar.