Rare Last Photos Of The Romanovs

A Bitter Anniversary

2017 marked the 100 year anniversary of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution, which marked the beginning of the end for the Romanov family. To commemorate the anniversary, members of the Communist party held protests throughout Moscow. Many carried photos of Vladimir Lenin. The Kremlin, not wishing to support a revolution of any kind by the people, remained silent. Current president Vladimir Putin said that the revolution is best left to history books. In 2013, Putin said that “[t]oo often in our national history, instead of an opposition to the government, we faced opposition to Russia itself. And we know how that ends. It ends with the destruction of the state itself.”