They were brutally MURDERED by the Bolsheviks.
The idiot author of this article makes it sound like nothing bad happened. Like the Tsar and his family were out for a spring walk and, oh by the way, they got shot.
The world must remember that the Bolsheviks (and their fellow travelers, Socialists and American Liberals) showed their true colors that day when they brutally MURDERED the Tsar and his family - purely because the Tsar and his family were a potential impediment to the rule of the Bolsheviks.