2-981-228 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'La Fin d'une Regime et d'un Regne; Une des dernieres photographies de la famille imperiale avant l'abdication; Nicolas II, son fils le tsarevitch Alexis, et les grandes-duchesses, ses filles, au milieu des officiers de sa garde', 1917. The end of a regime and a reign: one of the last photographs of the Russian imperial family before the abdication; Nicholas II, his son tsarevitch Alexis, his daughters, and household guards. The tsar and tsarina and their children were executed by a firing squad on 17 July 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].