Pictured is a portrait of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II. After the February Revolution of 1917, he was placed under house arrest at Tsarskoye Selo and then sent with his family to the Siberian town of Tobolsk. At the age of 50, he was shot along with his family by a firing squad in the early hours of July 17, 1918. (©The Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve, St Petersburg, 2014.)   Close