Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until ...

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. He did as much ...

15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. As Women’s History Month continues, we look at how Tsar Nicholas II of Russia’s abdication on ...

15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. As Women’s History Month continues, we look at how Tsar Nicholas II of Russia’s abdication on this day ...

News about Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Thousands of Russian religious pilgrims have walked in an overnight procession in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg to mark the 100th anniversary of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.

I hadn’t realized it, but Czar Nicholas II was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church (in the West in 1981, back in Russia in 2000). Now a forthcoming Russian movie,”Matilda,” about his ...

Russia has exhumed the remains of Czar Nicholas II and his wife in a bid to identify their missing children, believed to have been buried in a separate grave.

Russia has exhumed Czar Nicholas II and his wife as part of a new investigation into the 1918 slaying of the Russian royal family.

Remains of Alexei, heir to the Russian throne, missing since royal family was gunned down nine decades ago, may have been found along with those of one of his sisters.

MOSCOW - Members of Russia's former royal family have asked the government to officially exonerate Czar Nicholas II, his wife, children and other relatives executed by the Bolsheviks after the ...