On March, 2, 1917 an emperor Nikolay II signed the manifest about renunciation from a throne. After renunciation a former sovereign is with a wife and children, not wishing and not having the opportunity to abandon Russia and will leave for a border, in banishment, lived under a house arrest in Tobolsk, and then in Ekaterinburg. In night on July, 17, 1918, in the notorious Ipatievskiy house, family of Romanovy was shot up.
