During the imprisonment and exile of the Romanov family, they lived in these three places. The first was the Alexander Palace, the beloved home of the family that they left, never to see again. There was a story about the front door, Catherine the Great was with her grandson Alexander as she entered the front door of the palace for the first time that she named after him. It is said that the last of the Romanovs exited the palace from this same door the list symbol of their power and past. The second place the Romanovs lived in during their exile was the Tobolsk Governor's Mansion. When Nicholas II was a Tsarevich, he was traveling around the world and one of his stops was Japan, it is known that there was an attempt on his life, and his parents decided to cut his trip short and have him return to them by going through all of Russia. One of his stops on the way back to his family was Tobolsk, where he spent time in the Governor's Mansion, where he said that he enjoyed the home, little did he know that he would come back, this time as a prisoner and in exile in his own country. The next place the Romanovs lived during their exile and imprisonment, was the last place they ever lived, the Ipatiev House or "House of Special Purpose". It is said that when Nicholas, Alexandra and Maria left Tobolsk, they were supposed to go to Moscow to prepare for a trial against Nicholas, instead the Ural Soviets took over the train and sent it to Ekaterinburg as to ensure proper punishment of Nicholas (they were the region who despised him the most). They refused to give him up and put the family in the Ipatiev House, after kicking out the owner. I've said before that Tsar Michael I was found in the Ipatiev Monastery, and Nicholas II was killed in the Ipatiev House, so the Romanov dynasty was born and died in a place named Ipatiev. The Alexander Palace and Tobolsk Governor's Mansion are museums dedicated to the Romanovs, the Ipatiev House was destroyed in the 1970s. In the place where the Ipatiev House once stood there is a cathedral called "Church on the Blood".