Every time I think of that whole awful incident, I think of the scene (witnessed by a laundrywoman) in which Anastasia stuck her tongue out at the commander of the Red Army squad that had been tasked to execute them. This happened a few hours before they were all killed.
Apparently, the hated Tsar tried to shield his son from the fusillade with his own body, so the child, who had already suffered so much from his hemophilia, was not killed immediately. The goons bayoneted the girls, but the Tsaritsa was dispatched with a bullet in his ear.
It makes me sick to read about it. These people were typical murdering Bolsheviks. Absolutely soulless.