Tsarist boots marching down the Odessa Steps in the movie “The Battleship Potemkin” (1926).

Tsarist boots marching down the Odessa Steps in the movie “The Battleship Potemkin” (1926).

Red Guards at Vulkan factory, Russia, 1917.

Red Guards at Vulkan factory, Russia, 1917.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna as a nun after her husband’s death, ca. 1909.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna as a nun after her husband’s death, ca. 1909.

Tsar Nicholas II and his daughters Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana in captivity at Tobolsk, Russia, in the winter of 1917-1918.
Source: Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Tsar Nicholas II and his daughters Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana in captivity at Tobolsk, Russia, in the winter of 1917-1918.

Source: Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University