Royal Family Russian Orthodox Icon Wood Tsar Nicholas Tsarina Alexandra 3 Inch, Small Icon For Home Traveling Canonization of the Romanovs Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei are saints of the Orthodox Church variously designated as new martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and as passion bearers elsewhere in the Russian Orthodox Church. The family was killed on 17 July 1918 by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia; the site of their execution is now beneath the altar of the The Church on Blood.