The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for centuriesThe family's reign ended in the revolution ... people had already taken the life of one tsar, Nicholas II's grandfather, Alexander II, who was ...

One of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century has been put to rest: DNA analysis of bone fragments has proven that two of Czar Nicholas' children believed to have escaped were killed with ...

Xenia Romanova, the mother of the first Romanov Czar Mikhail Fyodorovich blessed him for reigning with the icon of the Virgin Mary of St Theodore in 1613. Czar Nicholas and his family kept a copy ...

The six Romanov Family Albums held at the Beinecke Library at Yale University represent a unique survival from the last years of Russian Imperial dynasty. Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of railroads that ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas ... Nor have those of Michael, whose brother Nicholas and his family were infamously murdered a month later. It is not known if ...

Russian prosecutor general Igor Krasnov has revealed that the Romanov royal family's grisly end in 1918 ... On the night of July 17, 1918, Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna ...