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 ...

He had devoted his life to serving his master - and, even in the face of certain death, that loyalty never wavered. Yet for 90 years, Briton Nicholas Johnson - murdered by Bolshevik ...

protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of the Russian monarchy.