Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Once upon a time, in the most classic of fairy tale ways, a handsome ruler married a beautiful princess.

Then a mystical man promised to guide them and their family to safety.

But in grand fairy tale fashion, they only found themselves ending a 300-year family reign in losing everything.

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Let's talk about the last Romanaw family.

But first, let's drop them into history.

In 1918, Tarzan of the Apes, the first Tarzan film premiered at a Broadway theater.

Tarzan Stripes, a weekly US Armed Forces newspaper, begins publication.

The first daylight savings time goes into effect.

The Spanish blue pandemic is spread across the globe.

World War I ended.

And on a July night in 1918, the Romanaw family was murdered in the basement of a house where they had been in exile.

Hello, everybody! Hi!

Today we are going to tackle some Russian pronunciation.

And I would like to say up front, thank you to Evgeny and Vladimir for helping us with some pronunciations, which we may or may not use.

I know one I'm not going to use.

Wow, that was beautiful.

The other thing is, you're not going to hear us say the TS in Tsar.

We know that it's pronounced that way, but it's affected to say that kind of thing in our accent and it's just a distraction.

So we're probably going to say Tsar.

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