First I must digress a bit.
Mrs. Plant, my lovely New England Wife, is taking an Arkansas history course.
I wished to show her the cannon used in the Brooks Baxter War (Arkansans killed each other not only in the Civil War, but afterwards) and the site where David O. Dodd was hanged.
The Old State House has the cannon, and a display concerning Clifton Rodes Breckenridge , an Arkansan who was the U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire. We saw a gown Mrs. Breckenridge wore to the coronation of Nicholas and Alexandra. I have seen something that Nicholas II and Alexandra saw, and not at a Russian museum, but in Little Rock, next to where I used to take young ladies to the Arkansas Symphony. What a trip.
Still dead, is he?
Yes, but buried now in St. Peter & St. Paul instead of an abandoned mine shaft. 
There was a lovely traveling exhibition of Romanov home decor that came to Sydney several years ago. This one is my favourite. Mmm, decorative bullets! I can’t say I would have greatly enjoyed the prevalent aesthetic of the Winter Palace.
Are you thinking of the building where they were shot? That would be the “House of Special Purpose” in Ekaterinburg.
Someone will be along shortly to spell things correctly.
No, actually that was a non-sequitur. There are decorative bullets on the piece I linked to, but over all I found the Romanov decor excessive and bordering on tacky. Well, not just bordering on in some instances.
Yes, but what are you going to get the Autocrat who has everything?
Kevlar vests?
OK, now I’m in bad taste land!
Nah, he needs a kevlar vest like he needs a hole in his head!
Oh, right.
Anyone else think it odd that Alexis, the bleeder, is the one left alive after the shooting?
Nah, he needs a kevlar vest like he needs a hole in his head!
Oh, right.
Anyone else think it odd that Alexis, the bleeder, is the one left alive after the shooting?
Wasn’t his one of the bodies that was lost? I don’t think one dies from blood loss when hit by however many hundred rounds were fired at them. The bodies were also disfigured afterwards.
As a Reconstruction buff (there are too many Civil War buffs in the world, so I decided to stake out different turf), I’m fascinated by any reference to the Brooks-Baxter war. It was Reconstruction politics as its ugliest, most Byzantine, and most incomprehensible. I hadn’t been aware there was surviving hardware in Little Rock–I’ll make a mental note to check it out the next time I’m in Arkansas!
IIRC, two of the bodies were burned, which was the original plan for disposal, but it was taking too long and using too much fuel, so they opted for the mine shaft instead. As I understand, all of the bodies are accounted for though only fragments remain of two of the victims.
I thought the bodies of Alexis and one of the women (Anastasia?) were burned and no remains were found.