Why was the Romanov family killed?

Because most of Russia lived under the limit of starvation. In the late 19th century hunger death was not uncommon and yet the government exported weat out of the country to finance the new buldings of railways. To the rest of the world they said "There is no hunger in Russia". This is just one of the many things happening in Russian for a very long time. The people whom the country was built on was straving, but the elite just got richer and richer. The Romaovs were victims of the revolution. The Tsar could have done something, but his family should not have been killed, they didn't do anything to deserve to die.