Russia’s royals aren’t dead

When the Bolsheviks captured the last tsar of Russia – Nicholas Romanov – and his family, they were given orders to execute all of them. 

Amid the Russian Revolution, the Romanovs faced the firing squad in July 1918, where their executors supposedly killed them, ending Russia’s royal lineage. By this stage the tsar had already abdicated the throne for both himself and his heir, Alexei, and was seeking political exile in the United Kingdom. 

His wife and four daughters had sewn jewellery and gems into their corsetry and undergarments to take with them, which in turn acted as a kind of armour. As the story goes, this ‘armour’ saved his youngest daughter, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, from death. This rumour was further exacerbated in Soviet times, when her body couldn’t be located and several women claimed to be the missing woman.

Source: https://theculturetrip.com/