It’s a royal family. There are no shortage of relatives with legal claims to the throne.
Deliberately choosing to murder children who’ve committed no crime is bad. It wasn’t “We’re going to toss a grenade at the Tsar while he’s on an outing with his family”, that I would get. Necessity dictates you don’t always get to choose when an opportunity to strike arises. But this was “We have the Tsar and his family prisoner, so we’re going to deliberately execute all of them.”
It’s a royal family. There are no shortage of relatives with legal claims to the throne.
Deliberately choosing to murder children who’ve committed no crime is bad. It wasn’t “We’re going to toss a grenade at the Tsar while he’s on an outing with his family”, that I would get. Necessity dictates you don’t always get to choose when an opportunity to strike arises. But this was “We have the Tsar and his family prisoner, so we’re going to deliberately execute all of them.”
So which parts of the royal family lived through this then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Peter_Alexandrovich_of_Oldenburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Xenia_Alexandrovna_of_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexander_Mikhailovich_of_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Olga_Alexandrovna_of_Russia
47 of the 65 members of the royal family survived the revolution.