Rasputin was supposedly able to stop Alexei’s bleeding and ... Rasputin’s death, as well as the mass murder of the entire Romanov family, has been heavily mythologized over the years.

Eugenia Smith spent much of her life in Newport claiming to be the lost princess and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas. But do her claims add up?

Catherine ruled after his death and was succeeded by ... the defective gene that made her son Alexei a hemophiliac. Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an end with Nicholas IIÍs ...