Students are learning about the fall of the Russian Royal family, and the beginning of the communist government in Russia...which would be renamed the Soviet Union.
The immediate members of the royal family were all killed at Ekaterinburg, Siberia, in the summer of 1918. Their bodies were hidden in the ground, after the bones were dissolved. Despite the imposter, Anna Anderson, who for decades claimed she was the lost princess Anastasia, it was known that the entire family had perished. Their demise had been detailed by one of the assassins who bragged about his role to the American Haliburton.
Russian Royal culture continues to influence cultural and fashion trends. The imperial easter eggs, the richness of the traditional dress, and the beauty of the four royal sisters belongs to a different time. Many of the Romanov jewels were sold abroad to raise money for Stalin's great industrialization of Russia: the two five year plans.
A new imperial egg was rediscovered recently. It's quite a story!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/10706025/The-20m-Faberge-egg-that-was-almost-sold-for-scrap.html
