One of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century has been put to rest: DNA analysis of bone fragments has proven that two of Czar Nicholas' children believed to have escaped were killed with ...

It was a second Russian Revolution, which left Nicholas Romanov and his family in the hands of his most relentless personal enemies. 1 The long-postponed, liquidation of a three-hundred-years-o1d ...

That said, Russians generally see Nicholas II in a positive light (43 ... of revenge for the blunders and crimes committed by the Romanov family, has finally exhausted its credibility.

Nicholas and Alexandra had loved each other for years, but it wasn't until 1894 that she agreed to convert to Orthodoxy, a requirement for the wife of the heir to the Russian throne. They were ...

Nicholas Romanov and his family is another example. The last czar of Russia and his family were shot in a basement by the revolutionaries in 1918. In these cases, like Bashar Assad’s case ...

Today is the 94th anniversary of the murders of Tsar Nicholas, the last monarch of Russia, and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks. I had never thought much about this crime, nor of the ...

The result was the demise of the Romanov family. Five years of civil war and revolution followed, and in 1922, the USSR was born. When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant ...

Yet for 90 years, Briton Nicholas Johnson - murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia - was officially branded an 'enemy of the people'. As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother ...

The six Romanov Family Albums held at the Beinecke Library at Yale University represent a unique survival from the last years of Russian Imperial dynasty. Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra ...

Xenia Romanova, the mother of the first Romanov Czar Mikhail Fyodorovich blessed him for reigning with the icon of the Virgin Mary of St Theodore in 1613. Czar Nicholas and his family kept a copy ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the late tsarevich but also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing ...

Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an end with Nicholas IIÍs abdication in 1917. After the Bolshevik Party came to power in October of that year, many powerful Romanovs were assassinated ...