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 ...

On July 17, 1918, the House of Romanov came to an end when Nicholas II - the former tsar of imperial Russia - was gunned down alongside his wife and children in a surprise execution. The slaying ...

Eugenia Smith spent much of her life in Newport claiming to be the lost princess and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas. But do her claims add up?

Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an end with Nicholas IIÍs abdication in 1917. After the Bolshevik Party came to power in October of that year, many powerful Romanovs were assassinated ...

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 ...

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 ...