Captivity Years: Tobolsk | Romanov Family Photo Albums

On 12 August 1917, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were imprisoned in the Governor’s Mansion in Tobolsk. That building was the home of the governor of Siberia prior to the February Revolution of 1917. After the Bolsheviks came to power in October 1917, the conditions of the family’s imprisonment grew stricter, and talk of putting Nicholas on trial grew more frequent. As the Bolsheviks gathered strength, the government on April 26 moved Nicholas, Alexandra, and their daughter Maria to Ekaterinburg. On May