The Bolsheviks killed the servants of Czar Nicholas II along with his family.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Multiple sources state that the Bolsheviks executed Nicholas II's family in Yekaterinburg in July 1918 together with their loyal servants, including named staff such as Dr. Botkin, Demidova, Trupp and Kharitonov. The claim faithfully paraphrases the post's 'slaughtered the whole family and all their servants,' and the post's 'all' is a minor detail that the sources do not contradict.
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… Even when they took over the Winter Palace, the Bolsheviks destroyed everything inside. They wiped feces on things. You know, it was, it was almost a form of possession. They didn't just kill Zar Nicholas in a ritual. They slaughtered the whole family and all their servants, sexually molested the girl, and God knows what else they did, and it took a long time for them to die. This was considered, then and now, the Russian Church as a redemptive sacrifice, almost an imitation of Christ's sacrifice, that the fall of Rome, the day …
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Supports. Wikipedia's account names the court physician Eugene Botkin, lady-in-waiting Anna Demidova, footman Alexei Trupp and head cook Ivan Kharitonov as killed alongside the Romanovs by Bolshevik revolutionaries.[3]
Supports. DVIDS reports that the imprisoned Nicholas II, his wife and five children were shot and killed along with four loyal servants by the Bolsheviks in the basement of a merchant's house.[4]
Supports. Britannica states that the Romanov family was shot and bayoneted in a cellar along with four of their loyal servants, with 11 total victims that night.[5]
Supports. CNN reports that the Romanov family was executed in 1918 by Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg and that several of their staff members and servants were also killed.[2]
Supports. The History Skills account says Bolshevik guards executed Nicholas II along with his wife, five children and four loyal attendants in the basement of a house in Ekaterinburg.[6]
Context. The Reuters 2021 piece refers to extended royal family members being killed by the Bolsheviks, and does not itself address the servants, so it neither confirms nor refutes that part of the claim.[1]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 2, 4 not rated
- 1Russia opens tourist route reconstructing Romanov family's last journeyreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2DNA proves Bolsheviks killed all of Russian czar's children - CNNcnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3Murder of the Romanov family - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4DoD Lab Helps to Resolve Century-Old Russian Mystery - DVIDSdvidshub.net · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Today in History—July 17: The End of House Romanov - Britannicabritannica.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6The tragic end of Tsar Nicholas II and his familyhistoryskills.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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