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 ...

Smith was not, in fact, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who historians believe to have been executed via firing squad along with the rest of the Russian Imperial Romanov family during ...

The Romanov family was popular with all classes of people, including the lower ranks of the gentry and city dwellers, though the new tsar was only 17 at the time of his coronation and without any ...

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 Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh ... All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived ...

Nicholas II – the last Emperor of Russian – and his family ... The images recorded the Romanov family aboard their private yacht, vacationing on the Crimea in the new Marble Palace at Livadia ...

TASS/. The Romanov Family will always remain grateful to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for the attention she paid to preserving the memory of the last Russian tsar’s children ...

Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs.

The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of ...