Czar Nicholas II tried to go peacefully when he abdicated the throne. But the Romanovs had always lived by the sword, and, in July 1918, Nicholas’ entire family died violent deaths.

Like Putin, Czar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, who ruled from 1894 to 1917, brooked no opposition. The Siberian prison camps made infamous by the Soviets were opened by the czars.

VLADIMIR PUTIN 'wants' to reinstate the Russian royal family and move them into an ancient palace once occupied by the last Tsar Nicholas II.

In 1853, for example, the Russian Tsar Nicholas I used a dispute between the Russian Orthodox prelate in Jerusalem and his Catholic counterpart over who would control access to Christian holy ...

Nicholas I - great grandfather of the ill-fated last tsar Nicholas II - crushed the famous Decembrist Revoltto take control of the Russian Empire and lead it to its historical zenith of 7.7million ...

VLADIMIR PUTIN's party members wanted to reinstate the Russian Royal Family and move them into a palace formally occupied by Tsar Nicholas II, unearthed accounts show.

Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and five children were canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000 for "putting moral ideas above their crown." Americans may be perplexed by this because ...

A secret diary has revealed that Russia's last Tsar got a teenage girl pregnant during an illicit love affair. Glamorous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska was Nicholas II’s mistress before he wed ...

Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution. The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg.

VLADIMIR PUTIN 'wants' to reinstate the Russian royal family and move them into an ancient palace once occupied by the last Tsar Nicholas II.