Tsar Nicholas II and his family were shot in Yekaterinburg in 1918 MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church community has some questions about the results of the examinations as ...

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

Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries overnight to July 17, 1918. Located at the site now is the altar of the lower ...

“The Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh insights. Nicholas II was, as Mr. Hasegawa puts ... to court in 1905 to tend to the royal family’s only son, the hemophiliac heir Alexei.

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced ... Michael and other members of the Imperial Family had been unlawfully persecuted and killed by ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... into it and still leave room for China and India. That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan ...

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 ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in 1918.Credit: Alamy/File Hasegawa paints a convincing portrait of Nicholas as not only uninterested but way out of his depth as regards ...