text: En-route back to the capital, the royals and their escort are intercepted by representatives of the local revolutionary government, who seize the royals and bring them to Yekaterinburg. Under harsh conditions, they are guarded by Yakov Yurovsky, who later receives orders to have the family killed. In the middle of the night the family are awoken by his men and, under the pretense they need to transferred again, are brought to the cellar where they are executed.
  Cast
  The Imperial Family
  Michael Jayston as Nicholas
  Janet Suzman as Alexandra
  Roderic Noble as Alexis
  Ania Marson as Olga
  Lynne Frederick as Tatiana
  Candace Glendenning as Marie
  Fiona Fullerton as Anastasia
  Harry Andrews as Grand Duke Nicholas (Nikolasha)
  Irene Worth as The Queen Mother Marie Fedorovna
  The Imperial Household
  Tom Baker as Rasputin
  Jack Hawkins as Count Fredericks
  Timothy West as Dr. Botkin
  Katharine Schofield as Tegleva
  Jean-Claude Drouot as Gilliard
  John Hallam as Nagorny
  Guy Rolfe as Dr. Fedorov
  John Wood as Colonel Kobylinsky
  The Statesmen
  Laurence Olivier as Count Witte
  Eric Porter as Stolypin
  Michael Redgrave as Sazonov
  Maurice Denham as Kokovtsov
  Ralph Truman as Rodzianko
  Gordon Gostelow as Guchkov
  John McEnery as Kerensky
  The Revolutionaries
  Michael Bryant as Lenin
  Vivian Pickles as Mme. Krupskaya
  Brian Cox as Trotsky
  James Hazeldine as Stalin
  Stephen Greif as Martov