A Russian Supreme Court declared the last czar and his murdered family to be victims of political repression — a decision that helps Russia move toward closing a chapter in its tortured history.

Answers to the mystery of what befell the heirs of the last czar of Russia nearly a century ago may rest behind locked laboratory doors in Moscow and New England.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Investigators have opened the coffin of Russia's next-to-last czar to obtain genetic material from his remains and say it was not tampered with in Soviet times.

Investigators will exhume the remains of Russia's last tsar and his wife, as they reexamine the 1918 Romanov family murders in order to verify the identities of two of the slain family members who ...

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 ...

Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, who styles herself as the head of the Romanov imperial line, filed suit last month after prosecutors closed a probe into the murder of Russia's last tsar ...

MOSCOW, Oct. 1 -- Russia's Supreme Court on Wednesday recognized the nation's last czar, Nicholas II, and his family as victims of "groundless repression," formally rehabilitating the Romanovs ...

The Last Tsar. For a quarter century, James Biedron made his Russian language and history classes the stuff of high school legend. Now that he's retiring, his regime is being tossed on the dustbin ...

Seventy-two years after the Bolshevik secret police here slaughtered the last Russian monarch, his wife, son, four daughters, family doctor and three servants, Czar Nicholas II is rallying the kind… ...

A Russian Orthodox Church panel looking into the 1918 killing of Russia's last czar and his family says it's investigating whether it was a ritual murder — a statement that has angered Jewish ...