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 ...

The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for centuriesThe ... The nonconformity of the people had already taken the life of one tsar, Nicholas II's grandfather, Alexander II, who was assassinated in ...

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 ...

One of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century has been put to rest: DNA analysis of bone fragments has proven that two of Czar Nicholas' children believed to have escaped were killed with ...

Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age, late Tsar of All the Russias, carrying in his arms 2. The Tsarevitch, Alexis, a boy, of fourteen years, heir to the throne; 3. , Alexandra Feodorovna ...

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

Nicolas II Romanov and his wife Alexandra with children (pictured L-R): Alexei, Maria, Tatiana, Olga, Anastasia. Source: Getty Images/Fotobank Even now, 95 years after the murder of Russia's last czar ...

Xenia Romanova, the mother of the first Romanov Czar Mikhail Fyodorovich blessed him for reigning with the icon of the Virgin Mary of St Theodore in 1613. Czar Nicholas and his family kept a copy ...

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 chemically damaged and burnt remains were found in the Romanov family's makeshift ... remains as those of the two missing children of Czar Nicholas II: 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, the ...