History records that Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, met his death — along with the Empress Alexandra and their five children — at the hands of a Bolshevik firing squad during the ...

Rasputin is the enigma, the mysterious element in the tragic tale of Russia’s last czar, Nicholas II, and his beloved wife, Alexandra.

Tsar Nicholas II Romanov of Russia, Empress Alexandra with their children: Maria, Tatiana, Olga, Anastasia and Alexei, circa 1912.

Czar Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexis, Princesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, their court physician Yevgeny Botkin, chambermaid Anna Demidova, cook Ivan Kharitonov, and ...

Entombment of the relics of Czar Nicholas, Czarina Alexandra, and Grand Princess Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia was held in the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg in 1998.

Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and five children were canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000 for "putting moral ideas above their crown." Americans may be perplexed by this because ...

The downfall of Czar Nicholas II and his family (and consequently, the downfall of the Russian Empire) has been subject of great fascination for years — hence the creation of such works as the ...

Ending a decades-long debate, the Russian Orthodox Church on Monday canonized Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, saying the ruler died as a martyr to his faith when he was executed 82 years ago.

Grigori Rasputin, a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man, gained the favor of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra in 1908 by mysteriously stopping the bleeding of their hemophiliac son ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia ...

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was sentenced to life in U.S. prison for conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking and money ...