Today is the 94th anniversary of the murders of Tsar Nicholas, the last monarch of Russia, and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks. I had never thought much about this crime, nor of the ...
On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of ...
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 ...
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 ...
The true story of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia is not as romantic as the legend. The youngest daughter of ...
MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in 1918 had no justification, describing it as a monstrous crime rather than ...
Smith was not, in fact, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who historians believe to have been executed via firing squad along with the rest of the Russian Imperial Romanov family during ...
In 1894 Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia ... They were often drawn from the members of the Royal family or nobility. The civil service helped the Tsar run the Russian Empire, performing his will ...