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 ...

Russia experienced not one but two revolutions that would reshape the world. This video explores the fall of Tsar Nicholas II ...

The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia, and there is no evidence that he relished a position he inherited ...

Nicholas was saddened and embittered. 'It is such a disgrace for Russia,' he said, 'and amounts to suicide. I should never have thought the Emperor William could stoop to shake hands with these ...

He had devoted his life to serving his master - and, even in the face of certain death, that loyalty never wavered. Yet for 90 years, Briton Nicholas Johnson - murdered by Bolshevik ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

Zurab Tsereteli, a Russian-Georgian sculptor, painter and architect known for his large-scale and sometimes divisive works, ...

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...

In the liminal space of a Beverly Hills garden, the spirit of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff examines his life as his corporeal body dies upstairs. This is the world of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, the ...