The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II ... to be tsar of Russia, and there is no evidence that he relished a position he inherited unexpectedly, on the death of his nephritic ...

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 ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced ... Nor have those of Michael, whose brother Nicholas and his family were infamously murdered a month ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of railroads that ...

So passed Nicholas II, and the Romanovs ... not only with respect to the immediate family of the Tsar, but also his near relatives, the Grand Dukes and Princes who were murdered about the same ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man ... and a provisional government installed in his place. Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... government was called into question. The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control.

is an alternate history tale that imagines the consequences if the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II had survived the brutal massacre of the entire ruling Romanov family, which led to the ...

Without explanation, the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg has canceled a performance of I Killed the Tsar scheduled for June 5. The play is a post-documentary drama about the execution of Russia’s last ...

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 ...