Survivors - What Happened to the Romanov Family?

Nov 19, 2020 • It’s now about a hundred years since the Russian revolution. Millions of people became victims of the revolution. As was the Tsar, Nicholas II and his family, killed in a hail of bullets one night of July 1918. just over thirty members of the Tsar’s family managed to flee from Russia. What happened to them? Where did they go?

In this interview documentary with historic flashbacks the American-Russian lawyer Albert Bartridge in San Francisco tells us what happened to some of them. One of the survivors was Prince Vasili Romanov, nephew to the last Tsar Nicolaus II. He became one of Albert’s close friends and told him many stories about the narrow escape from the Revolution, onboard an English warship, and the life that followed, for him and his family, in a completely new existence

Editor and dubbing mixer is Olle Tannergård; cinematographer is Gunilla de Besche Öhrvall.

Original music: Magnus Dahlberg
Produced in 2018