15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. As Women’s History Month continues, we look at how Tsar Nicholas II of Russia’s abdication on ...

Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II Romanov (1868-1918), the last emperor of Russia, reads the act of abdication to the messengers of Kerensky the Duma in its direct private wagon at Tsarskoye Selo.

Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, was a peculiar and quirky man who had a major dark side. 1. He was a passive student to a brilliant education . ...

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.

The American ambassador to Russia, David R. Francis, had just been appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and did not speak any Russian, but he saw the Czar’s abdication as a chance for ...

Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee says the criminal investigation into the murder of Tsar Nicholas II, his family, and entourage — reopened in 2015 — will review the theory that it may have ...

Russia has exhumed the remains of Czar Nicholas II and his wife in a bid to identify their missing children. Seven members of the Romanov family were killed in 1918, but only five were buried together ...

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 ...

After Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries early on the morning of July 17, 1918, a collection of the royal family's personal photographs was smuggled out of ...

Almost 100 years after the last tsar and his family were killed, Russian investigators are re-examining the case and exhuming the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra.

The Russian Investigative Committee has exhumed the bones of Czar Nicholas II and his wife as part of a new probe into the 1918 murder of the royal family.

Tsar Nicholas II Romanov of Russia, Empress Alexandra with their children: Maria, Tatiana, Olga, Anastasia and Alexei, circa 1912. By Storm Gifford. PUBLISHED: July 19, 2020 at 7:01 AM EDT.