Czar Nicholas II tried to go peacefully when he abdicated the throne. But the Romanovs had always lived by the sword, and, in July 1918, Nicholas’ entire family died violent deaths.

Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were first cousins. In 1918, Ipatiev House was turned into a fortified prison for ex-Tsar Nicholas II and his family. As the ill-fated ...

During the first Crimean War, The Economist magazine — the same one that's still going strong — wrote a scathing piece in 1854 on Russia and its leader, Czar Nicholas I. "That vast state is in ...

The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg. By Ivan Nechepurenko ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Maria Ryadova recalled being in a ...

Czar Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, by nearly all accounts, was a decent fellow who had absolutely no business ruling an outhouse, much less the largest country in the world.

The front page of the Deseret News on March 18, 1917, as news of Czar Nicholas II's abdication had signaled the end of the Russian monarchy. DN-1917czar3.

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 ...

New evidence that Nicholas II approved of the anti-Jewish pogroms committed during his reign was published today by the “Isvestia”, the official organ of the Soviet government. The newspaper ...

However, in 1909, Czar Nicholas II, his family and their entourage traveled on the imperial yacht Standart to the Isle of Wight, where they stayed for several days.