Thereafter, the tsar and his family were imprisoned, first in Alexander's palace, then in the Tobolsk governor's house, and finally in Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. Nicholas II, along with his wife, his son, his four daughters, the imperial family physician, a personal servant, the empress's waitress and the family cook were executed in the basement of the house by the Bolsheviks in the early morning from July 16 to 17, 1918.