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 ...

Privileged though they may be, hereditary monarchs are denied a basic freedom that the rest of us enjoy. Their lives aren’t quite their own: unless they succumb to the self-destruction of abdication, ...

ST. PETERSBURG, July 17. /TASS/. Twelve members of the Romanov House have come to St. Petersburg to pay homage to last Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family members marking 100 years since the ...

Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members ... the blunders and crimes committed by the Romanov family, has finally exhausted its credibility.

The reasons for the summary and unexpected transference of the ex-Tsar and his family to ... which left Nicholas Romanov and his family in the hands of his most relentless personal enemies.

By 1908, seven years after arriving in Russia as a 25-year-old, he was tutor to the five children of Tsar Nicholas II. He would stay with the family even after the tsar was overthrown and the ...

The Romanovs first came to power in 1613, and there were 17 Romanov rulers on the Russian throne before Nicholas II was crowned ... Kaiser, Tsar," when Nicholas and his family were murdered ...