A friend of the imperial family saved six albums of snapshots, now housed in Yale’s Beinecke Library .
Empress Alexandra
Alexandra, along with her husband and five children, was executed July 17, 1918, during the Russian Revolution.
Alexei
Alexei was the youngest of the five children — he was 13 when he died. He was the heir to the throne.
Alexandra
Alexandra was extremely protective of her only son, who had hemophilia.
Olga and Tatiana
All seven Romanovs were canonized as passion bearers in the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.