Little is known about the death of Anastasia. Did she live? Did she die? Nobody knows for sure. Soldiers had captured the royal family. The Romanov family were now prisoners to them. The family lived at Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg for seventy-eight days. On the night of July 17, 1918, the royal family and their servants were brought down into the basement "for a picture". Actually, the soldiers were planning on killing them. The soldiers burst into the room, and started shooting the whole family. The bullets bounced off of Anastasia, Tatiana, and Maria, three of the sisters. The soldiers didn't know why. The bullets ricocheted of of the girls because the sisters have woven diamonds into their clothing. Since Anastasia's remains were never found, people think that Anastasia had lived.