The war has cost Russia more than 700,000 casualties. It has forced Russia to reorient its lucrative European energy trade to ...

Prince Felix Yusupov killed Rasputin on December 30, 1916. Yusupov hatched a conspiracy to assassinate Rasputin after ...

But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...

The images were brought back to England by Charles Sydney Gibbes - tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II - whose unique access to the Romanovs helped him to picture them in unguarded and ...

Portrait of Czar Nicholas I in The Illustrated London News. This formal portrait provides a sharp contrast to the way Czar Nicholas I was depicted in the satirical press. Richard Cobden, a leading ...

Dr. Tony Donaldson revisits a forgotten episode in Sri Lanka’s history when Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, spent 12 unforgettable days in Ceylon The final years of Tsarist Russia were ...

But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 17 -- Emperor Nicholas, the Czarina, and all of the royalties in the city attended requiem services in the Fortress Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul this morning.

YEKATERINBURG, February 25. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian Emperor Nicholas II’s youngest daughter, Grad Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, might have escaped execution in 1918, lived up to 83 years and died ...

Lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin is acting for the film director Alexei Uchitel, whose movie Matilda explores the love of Tsar Nicholas II for a ballerina. Mr Dobrynin posted Facebook photos of burnt ...