He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia ... obsessive about protocol, Nicholas would have been happier as a country squire, devoted to his family. But he was cursed with an unshakeable ...

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of ...

Nicholas' reign had ended when he abdicated ... The preliminary results are from the fourth and last set of DNA tests of the czar's family remains. The final results are to be released in late ...

TASS/. Investigation of the death of Russia’s last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family goes on for many years and the cornerstone problem the identity of the human remains found near Yekaterinburg ...

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

It was a tranquil spot, undisturbed by the revolution; then, too, it boasted a comfortable Governor's Palace which had been prepared for the ex-Tsar and his family. But why, asks Nicholas Sokolov ...

Public Domain The Russian Imperial Family on the steps of the Catherine ... The victims were the former Tsar, Nicholas II, his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four loyal servants.

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 ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... into it and still leave room for China and India. That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan ...

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 ...