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 was extremely protective of her only son, who had hemophilia.

All seven Romanovs were canonized as passion bearers in the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.