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 ...

The House of Romonov was once a powerful dynasty that ruled over Russia. Following Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in 1917, he and his family were brutally executed by the Bolsheviks.

Tsar Nicholas II Romanov of Russia, Empress Alexandra with their children: Maria, Tatiana, Olga, Anastasia and Alexei, circa 1912.

The remains of Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and three of their five children were identified after exhaustive DNA tests in Britain and the U.S.

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

After Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries early on the morning of July 17, 1918, a collection of the royal family's personal photographs was smuggled out of ...

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France and the U.S., appearing in films and on the pages of glossy magazines ...

Tsar Nicholas II (center) with his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their son Alexis (being held by a Cossack) during celebrations at the Kremlin to mark the Romanov family's 300 years in power.

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 ...

The dramatic end of Nicholas II’s reign in Russia was one of the turning points of the early 20th century. Could he have avoided his downfall?