HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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They helped fight for warm water ports in the Black Sea
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They were taken to the guillotine in Paris, France
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The last Tzar of Russia and his family were shot so no one could bring a Monarch back to power
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They lead the country in communism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following the February Revolution in 1917, the Romanovs and their servants had been imprisoned in the Alexander Palace before being moved to Tobolsk, Siberia, in the aftermath of the October Revolution. They were next moved to a house in Yekaterinburg, near the Ural Mountains before their execution in July 1918.
Detailed explanation-2: -Local authorities were ordered to prevent a rescue of the Romanovs, and after a secret meeting of the Yekaterinburg Soviet, a death sentence was passed on the imperial family.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fearing that the White army would free the tsar, the local Bolshevik command, with Lenin’s approval, had decided to kill the tsar and his entire family. In the early morning hours of July 17, 1918, they acted.