Russia experienced not one but two revolutions that would reshape the world. This video explores the fall of Tsar Nicholas II ...

One of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century has been put to rest: DNA analysis of bone fragments has proven that two of Czar Nicholas' children believed to have escaped were killed with ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...

"Anastasia" primarily takes place in the 1920s, and tells a layered story about Grand Duchess Anastasia, child of Czar Nicholas II, who possibly escaped before her royal family was executed. In an ...

Putin himself is much more like another czar, Nicholas I, who stumbled into military conflict with the British and French and rejected calls for the basic reforms needed to enable Russia to ...

April 16th has been a day marked by a diverse range of significant historical events that have shaped the world in profound ...

It was a tranquil spot, undisturbed by the revolution; then, too, it boasted a comfortable Governor's Palace which had been prepared for the ex-Tsar and his family. But why, asks Nicholas Sokolov ...

In the liminal space of a Beverly Hills garden, the spirit of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff examines his life as his corporeal body dies upstairs. This is the world of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, the ...