As Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, looked on, his nation laid its last emperor to rest July 17 in St. Petersburg, exactly 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains. In the hourlong ceremony the remains of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, along with four servants and three of their five children, were buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral, final resting place of most of Russia's imperial ...