When the Russian Emperor Nicholas II decided to abdicate, he put forward several simple conditions, one of which was the preservation and provision of life for himself and all members of his family. All the emperor's demands were met by the Provisional Government. After the Bolsheviks came to power, Nicholas II asks Lenin to allow him to live in Russia as an ordinary citizen. He gets such permission. So what went wrong, why did the fate of the imperial family take shape the way it did? History does not give exact answers to this question.
In Tobolsk.
For no apparent reason, the emperor was arrested in the spring of 1918 and an investigation began. There is no evidence of guilt. It was possible to let go, but the family is sent into exile, first to Perm, and then to Tobolsk. After an alleged escape attempt, the investigation is resumed, and the family is transported to Yekaterinburg. The Whites approached the city, and a decision was made to eliminate the Romanovs.
According to the court, the Bolsheviks would not have been able to sentence Nicholas, but the death of the royal family was undoubtedly necessary and beneficial for them. The Bolshevik leadership had a good education, and they knew very well about the possibility of restoring imperial power. For example, it was in France twenty years after the execution of the Bourbons. The power of the Bolsheviks was still not so strong at that time, and the restoration of the Romanov dynasty could not be ruled out.
Nicholas Ii and Wilhelm II.
The death of the dynasty was also beneficial to the Germans. They knew that Nikolai would never sign a separate peace, but he could well lead the white movement, tuned in to war with Germany. It is possible that there was some semblance of a secret treaty between the Bolsheviks and the German authorities. After all, it is quite obvious that Wilhelm II, if he wanted to, would simply make the extradition of Nicholas and his family a necessary condition for the conclusion of the Brest Peace. The German emperor was asked about this by both the Danish king and Russian public figures. But to no avail, so Germany's involvement in the execution of the Romanov couple, if not directly, then indirectly, is obvious.
Cousins: King George V of England and Russian Emperor Nicholas II.
The Russian emperor was not needed alive and the members of his family were also the English crown. The king of England refused to host Nicholas, because the banks of Great Britain contained colossal personal funds of the royal family. And they would have to be given. And so you don't have to give anything. The United States also did not need a living family of the Romanovs, because they legally practically owned the Federal Settlement System, which in many ways was created with their money. By and large, and "white", the martyr for the faith and the fatherland Nikolai Romanov, was more attractive, because in the white movement itself there was a fierce struggle for power.
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So the Romanov family fell from the hands of the Bolsheviks with the tacit approval, or even direct participation of all the main participants in those tragic events. In the late 1980s, the remains of 11 Romanovs were discovered, and by decree of Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, they were interred with military honors in the Catherine Chapel of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg.