Today is the 94th anniversary of the murders of Tsar Nicholas, the last monarch of Russia, and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks. I had never thought much about this crime, nor of the ...

Nicholas’s heart was never in it, anyway: Upon becoming tsar at 26, he wept. But he accepted the throne, much like everything, as Providence. The apathy of the Russian people to the death of the ...

Tsar Nicholas, Nazis, Louis Sullivan, and a Little Chicago Church: The Crazy Story of St. Luke’s Portrait of the Virgin Mary. ... the first distinctly American architect, ...

All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having ...

Incredible photos of Russia's last czar, royal family surface. Dozens of candid photos showing Czar Nicholas II and the Romanov family boating and enjoying sleigh rides during the twilight years ...

Nicholas II, the future Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias was the first and only Tsar to visit India. The trip was part of an epic 290-day journey that led him to the Russian Far East and ...

Even now, 95 years after the murder of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, we do not know precisely how many people took part in the deed. One account of the event claims there were eight, and yet ...

The Abdication of Nicholas II Left Russia Without a Czar for the First Time in 300 Years Events in Saint Petersburg 100 years ago brought the end to the Romanov dynasty Carolyn Harris - Historian ...

All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a ...

Tsar Nicholas II’s favorite palace—the home to which he retreated after he abdicated the throne—was one of the Romanov’s most beloved residences. Its rooms were filled with books, art, and ...