Synopsis

Just after midnight on July 17th, 1918, in a house within the Ural mountain town of Ekaterinburg, Bolshevik guards roused the deposed Tsar Nicholas II and his family, then compelled them into the basement, where they were shot and beaten to death. *NOVA* examines forensic analyses of skeletons unearthed in Ekaterinburg in 1979, purported to be the remains of the Russian imperial family, and investigates the compelling assertion that Anna Anderson of Charlottesville, Virginia, was, in fact, the l