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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the first episode of The Last Czars, a new docuseries about the end of the Romanov dynasty, there's a scene where the camera ...

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...

In an effort to identify bone fragments that may belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, Russia has exhumed the remains of the royal couple who were killed in 1918. The ...

Tsar Nicholas II was the last monarch of Russia. He ruled from 1 November 1894 to 15 March 1915, when he was forced to leave his position and abdicate. His reign coincided with the demise of the once ...

The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in 1917 brought an end to three centuries of the Romanov Dynasty's rule. After that seminal event, the Bolshevik revolution ensured that Georgy ...

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 ...

It all started on April 27, 1891, when Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich II — heir to the Russian throne then held by his father, Alexander III — stepped onto the docks at Nagasaki Bay. The ...

KING George V has been revealed as a key architect in the demise of his cousin Tsar Nicholas II of Russia at the height of the Russian revolution, after failing to provide asylum to the Russian ...

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 ...