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 ...

Professor Emeritus Tsuyoshi Hasegawa on 'The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs' ...

The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia, and there is no evidence that he relished a position he inherited ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 17 -- Emperor Nicholas, the Czarina, and all of the royalties in the city attended requiem services in the Fortress Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul this morning.

Portrait of Czar Nicholas I in The Illustrated London News. This formal portrait provides a sharp contrast to the way Czar Nicholas I was depicted in the satirical press. Richard Cobden, a leading ...

Everything you need to know about the Russian Revolution in 13 minutes. This video covers all the major events of Russia's TWO revolutions of 1917– the February Revolution that ended Tsarist rule in ...

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 ...

But even before his time in office, the first use of the phrase "czar" in the U.S. was likely Nicholas Biddle, tapped to be president of the Bank of the United States during Andrew Jackson's ...