9. House Arrest at Alexander Palace
Under house arrest at Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo was not the end of the world, even though it must have been shocking to the family at the time. This image from May of 2017 is a couple of months into the house arrest. That’s Olga, Alexei, Anastasia, and Tatiana sitting on the ground. Anastasia has the family’s French bulldog Ortipo on her lap. None of them in this image would survive more than a year after this still, but for the time being, they were at least together. The family would stay at Alexander Palace until August 1917. That was when the provisional government moved them to the former Governor’s Mansion in Tobolsk.