The front page of the Deseret News on March 18, 1917, as news of Czar Nicholas II's abdication had signaled the end of the ...

The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...

Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...

Created for the Russian imperial family for Easter 1913, the piece was designed by Alma Pihl, a young jeweler and the daughter of one of Carl Faberge’s leading craftsmen NEW YORK, November 28. /TASS/.

MOSCOW — The last czar and his family were victims of political repression, Russia's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, formally restoring the Romanov name and furthering a Kremlin effort to encourage ...

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...

Grigori Rasputin remains one of the most mysterious and controversial figures of Imperial Russia. In this episode, we explore how a wandering mystic gained extraordinary influence over the Romanov ...

MOSCOW — The remains of the last czar’s son and heir to the Russian throne, missing since the royal family was gunned down nine decades ago by Bolsheviks in a basement room, may have been found, an ...

Here, we take a look at five myths and truths about the legendary Siberian holy man: Born to peasants in a small village in ...