All the Romanovs could do in confinement was meekly submit to their fate and forgive their enemies. Toward the end of his life, the Tsarevich's tutor Sidney Gibbs recalled: "They knew that it was the end when I was with them". Exhausted by their present hardships the Romanovs took great strength in religious consolation and their mutual devotion to God. It helped them transcend the uncertainty of the dangerous and unstable world they now inhabited.
A video with Helen Rappaport about the spirituality of the Romanov family and the last stage of their imprisonment in Ekaterinburg.