The burial of Tsar Nicholas II and his family

The Peter and Paul Cathedral is located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. The fortress, originally built under Peter the Great and designed by the italian Domenico Trezzini, between 1712 and 1733.The cathedral houses the remains of almost all the Russian Emperors and Empresses from Peter the Great .In the night between 16th and July 17, 1918 Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their five children, the lady in waiting Anna Demidova, the servant Trupp, cook Kharitonov Dr. Botkin and the military doctor, were shot and beaten with blows of bayonets. On 16 July 1998, the imperial family was buried with state funeral at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Saint Petersburg, next to the graves of the other Romanovs. In 2000 Nicholas II and his family were canonized by the Orthodox Church and declared martyrs.
Also was Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia for 34 years. (Of the post-Petrine rulers, only Peter II and Ivan VI are not buried here.