On #ThisDayinHistory* 1918, the Romanov family is executed ending an imperial dynasty that had ruled Russia for over 300 years. #Romanov100 *The historical debate places the dates as late night on the 16th through early on the 17th* | HISTORY

Royal jewelry ofthe Russian Royal family the Romanov Most of the imperial jewels were either taken out of the country or sold at auctions after the Bolshevik Revolution, but some of them can still be seen on display in Moscow. We do not know exactly how large the Romanov family's jewelry collection was since all the information we have comes from the fraction of it that fell into the Bolsheviks' hands after the 1917 revolution. And even those items did not resurface straight away. The royal trea