The Romanovs, descendents of Peter The Great, were the last imperial dynasty to rule over Russia. Nicholas II – the last Emperor of Russian – and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks on ...

Her new book, The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family, out this week, sets out to answer that question. She spoke with Smithsonian ...

Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age ... Ivan Haritonov, cook to the imperial family, a short man, slightly bald, with black hair and moustache, aged forty years; 11. Alexis Troupp, a footman ...

SIMFEROPOL, August 25 /TASS/. Prince Dimitry, the oldest member of the Romanov imperial family, has said he is ready to leave Denmark, where he currently lives, and move to reside permanently in ...

It hasn't required any repair work.' The murders were the first in an orgy of Romanov killings between June 1918 and January 1919. In all, 18 members of the Imperial Family were executed.

These objects all came from the Russian imperial family, and have been owned by British aristocracy. Other lots, like the resting cabochon-ruby-eyed sparrow (lot 15) and the chalcedony pouter ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917. They ascended the throne at the end of one of the most critical periods of Russian history, known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613).

The Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas and his family two years later. The two newly identified bodies, however, remain unrecognized by the church. The Russian Imperial House of Romanov ...

TASS/. Honorary chairman of the Coordination Council of Compatriots of Britain Prince Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky has proposed that the oldest member of Russia’s imperial Romanov family — Prince ...