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, ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced ... any stain of guilt on official records. The Russian government declared Johnson, Michael and ...

TASS/. Investigation of the death of Russia’s last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family goes on for many years and the cornerstone problem the identity of the human remains found near Yekaterinburg ...

Over the years there have been a number of claims from women claiming to be the long-lost Russian princess including Anna ...

Tsar Nicholas II was the son of Alexander III, who had reposed in the arms of Saint John of Kronstadt. Having been raised in piety, Tsar Nicholas ever sought to rule in a spirit consonant with the ...

In all its calculated horror Prince Felix Yussupov, cousin by marriage to Tsar Nicholas II, tells in a book Rasputin ... to the influence of Rasputin all Russia’s misfortunes in the early ...

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 ...

He carried his right hand on his hip in the manner of the late Czar; he spoke fluent French and a kind of Russian that was half church-Slavic, half Latin; he carried an icon with the initials A.I ...

Everything you need to know about the Russian Revolution in 13 minutes. This video covers all the major events of Russia's ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family ... also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing Russian population. The church's onion domes, bright colors and detailed ...

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...