The dramatic end of Nicholas II’s reign in Russia was one of the turning points of the early 20th century. Could he have ...

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 of ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to ... dropped into it and still leave room for China and India. That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan ...

but even this fact does not dissuade the Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch Romanov—surviving cousin and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas the Last—from wearing whenever he chooses a red ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tsar Nicholas ll and his family were killed by ... close to Osborne House which the Romanov family visited in the years before World War One. Karl Love The seven and a half-tonne granite monument ...

He was released in the late 1990s. Legally, the priest has changed his secular name to Nikolai Romanov, in honour of Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II. The former emperor and his family were thought ...