This is a website dedicated to the Romanov family, the last family to rule Russia before the Revolutions of 1917. But this is not about their crowns and jewels, this is about the family as a family, as individuals who were brutally killed far before their time. Nicholas, or Nikolai, Alexandra, or Alix, Olga, Tatiana, Marie, or Maria, Anastasia, perhaps the most famous of the seven, and Aleksey, or as some people call him Alexis.