The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for centuriesThe ... The nonconformity of the people had already taken the life of one tsar, Nicholas II's grandfather, Alexander II, who was assassinated in ...

Fifteen months later, the Bolsheviks had seized power, and the last of the Romanov ... Nicholas was largely to blame for the entire tragedy. Does he deserve posterity’s pity, or contempt? The ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to ... dropped into it and still leave room for China and India. That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...

Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age, late Tsar of All the Russias, carrying in his arms 2. The Tsarevitch, Alexis, a boy, of fourteen years, heir to the throne; 3. , Alexandra Feodorovna ...

Nicholas gave up his throne and was soon taken into captivity, along with his family. More than 300 years of Romanov rule over Russia was at an end. Three of the former tsar's daughters along with ...

Great-grandson of Emperor Alexander III said ... Petersburg marking the anniversary since Nicholas II’s death. Accompanying him was Prince Mikhail Romanov-Ilyinsky, a successor to Grand Duke ...

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 ...

TASS/. A descendant of Russian Emperor Nicholas I and the eldest in the Romanov family, Prince Dimitri Romanovich, and his wife, Theodora, have arrived in the Russian capital from Paris.

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...

The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of ...