Russian news reports say curious and pious people are visiting a bust of the last czar in the Crimean capital after reports spread that the sculpture appeared to be weeping. The bust of Nicholas II ...

For those readers who may not have followed the events: Matilda is a historical movie about the love affair of the future Tsar Nicholas II with the ballet dancer Matilda Kschessinka. The film covers ...

The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...

The remains of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra have been exhumed as part of a Russian investigation into the Romanov royal family's murder. The couple and their children – Olga, Tatiana, Maria ...

“What will happen to me and all of Russia? I’m not prepared to be a Czar, I never wanted to become one, I know nothing of the business of ruling. I don’t know how to carry out the duties.” (Nicholas ...

Russia has exhumed the remains of Czar Nicholas II and his wife in a bid to identify their missing children Seven members of the Romanov family were killed in 1918, but only five were buried together ...

A portrait of Tsar Nicholas II was discovered during the restoration of a full-size painting of the 1917 October Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin. The image was "hidden" for the last 90 years beneath ...