Charles Gibbes Paveliev Tsarevich Alexei was aged 13 when he was executed with the rest of ... Nikolaevna was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II A diary by Gibbes held in the Bodleian ...

A brutal civil war followed, leading to the death of more than 10 million Russians – amongst them Tsar Nicholas II and his family, executed by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg in July 1918.

The October 1917 revolution, the civil war between the Bolsheviks and White Tsarist forces, and the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918 were far away from the halcyon Ceylonese days ...

At Moscow, as early as March 20, extremists had interrupted Kerensky during his first speech in that city and demanded the execution ... the ex-Tsar and his family. But why, asks Nicholas Sokolov ...