MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show April 26, 2017
They kept them first in one of the russian royal palaces just south of st. Petersburg. Eventually they moved the czar and his family to another royal residence in yakatarinburg, now the fourth largest city in russia. In the summer of 1918, the russian revolutionaries, fighters holding the czar and his family in this residence, they were worried that the counterrevolutionaries, that the loyalists of the czars familiarly were closing in on yakatarinburg. They were worried the czar and his family may somehow be rescued by those counterrevolutionary forces. They were worried the revolution would b...