Russia’s Last Czar to Be Sainted. By Andrei Zolotov in Moscow. Nicholas II and family part of 1,100 canonized for martyrdom by communists. Christianity Today August 16, 2000. Share Share ...

Boris Yefimov, 100, saw the last czar, the birth and death of the Soviet Union, and voted for Putin. The political cartoonist, who survived civil war and Stalin, watched many others perish.

PETROGRAD, via LONDON, March 16, 1917 (UP) -- Democracy controls Russia. Czar Nicholas has abdicated. The Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch will act as regent until the czarevitch, 13 is of age ...

MOSCOW - Thousands of people crowded into a Moscow cathedral Sunday to watch as white-robed clerics officially canonized Russia's last czar, his family and hundreds of other victims of Soviet ...

As scattered details of the apparent suicide of Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoit trickled in via state ...

Minister of Transport Roman Starovoy likely killed himself hours after being fired by President Vladimir Putin.

MOSCOW -- Prosecutors announced yesterday that they have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago, after an archaeologist reported ...

The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia, and there is no evidence that he relished a position he inherited ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian’s transport minister was found dead from a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, investigators said ...

In the history-steeped halls of the Kremlin, where Czars were crowned, the 1,378 comrade Deputies of the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. assembled amid all the panoply and portent of ...

He naïvely invited self-comparisons to Russia’s last czar, humiliating himself in the process, by referring to 1917 and the First World War.