princess 0lga romanoff, the great—niece of the tsar, tells the story.ts and the nobles, tsar nicholas of imperial russia, with his wife and children. one day, all to find death in a bullet swept cellar. my grandmother was tsar nicholas ii's sister, and my father was tsar nicholas ii's eldest nephew. he called him "uncle nicky". nicholas adored him and he travelled a lot with the tsarina and with the tsar, and was very close with the girls. they used to have cycle races and pony races up and down the palaces. the russian territories are vast and they were incredibly powerful. also, nicholas was the head of the church. already, there were bolshevik movements, and the russian royal family were not as powerful as they were say in 1900. 0n march15, 1917, tsar nicholas ii, supreme ruler of all the russias, was forced to abdicate in the face of political and economic pressure, that lead in the end to total revolution. nicholas and his family were taken to tobolsk, where they were held, and from tobolsk, they went to ekaterinburg, which is where they were event