Romanov impostors

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Members of the ruling Romanov dynasty— including Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and his children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei— were executed by a firing squad led by Yakov Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on 17 July 1918, during the Russian Civil War. Afterwards, a number of people came forward claiming to be Romanovs that survived the execution. All were impostors, as the skeletal remains of the Imperial family have since been recovered and identified through DNA testing. To this day, a number of people still falsely claim to be members of the Romanov family, often using false titles of nobility or royalty.

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