As the lives of the Tsar and his family hung in the balance, King George V of England weighed family ties against politics.

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 ...

adding that the descendants of the Imperial Romanov family think that it is fair "to recognize the Russian Imperial House as part of historical heritage." However, the House of Romanov thinks that ...

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 ...

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).

Princess Rostislav of Russia is the wife of Prince Rostislav, the great great nephew of the last tsar of Russia. From ...

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.

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 ...

In her sprightly new biography, “The Rebel Romanov,” Helen Rappaport introduces ... it’s hard to compete with the glittering grotesquerie of the imperial Russian court.