Photos play an important role in our understanding ... Future King George V of the United Kingdom sitting next to his cousin, future Tsar Nicholas II of Russia while posing for a photograph ...

It was built in the Neo-Byzantine style. The original design was developed by Ivan Strom and Pavel Sparro, and later ...

Victoria carried the haemophilia gene, which affected 10 of her male descendants including the son and heir of Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Victoria ... A set of 14 photos, known as Carte de Visites ...

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, ...

All the nobility of the Russian Empire, including the tsar's family, liked to spend their holidays on the southern Russian ...

Nicholas II, abdicated the throne — the term started popping up in other contexts. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner of Major League Baseball, became known as the "Czar of Baseball." ...

When it came to ruling his empire, the Tsar was a dogmatic decision maker ... career is not nearly as tragic as the end of Nicholas II’s. About the Author Dr. Alexandria Fanjoy Silver has ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the late tsarevich but also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing ...

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 ...