Status Updates From Red Victory: A History of t...

Although they do not take into account those killed when the Cheka suppressed hundreds of insurrections against Soviet authority, the best estimates set the probable number of executions at about a hundred thousand, or about seven times the number killed by the tsarist government during the entire century before the Revolution.

(Czar) Nicholas barely had time to leap to his feet and utter "Chto?--What?"--before Iurovskii shot him in the head, turned slightly, and fired two shots at (Prince) Aleksei. Aleksandra and one of her daughters managed to cross themselves before the bullets from their killers' revolvers tore into their chests...The rest...fell in a second barrage.