George V and Nicholas II really were cousins — first cousins ... Note: This article contains spoilers about “The Crown.” In the new season of “The Crown,” the sixth episode opens ...

Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were first ... we take a deeper look at one of the facts The Crown gets right: the house where they were executed. Built in the 1880s ...

As the lives of the Tsar and his family hung in the balance, King George V of England weighed family ties against politics.

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of ...

Nicholas II, who had been visiting military headquarters ... and the Imperial Duma shares our view – to abdicate the crown of the Russian state and resign the supreme power.” ...

A new documentary-drama titled Royal Mob: Four Sisters has arrived on Sky History, providing a welcome tonic for royal fans who've already binge-watched The Crown Season 5 ... who would one day become ...

Of all the things a regular watcher of The Crown might expect to see in Buckingham ... her maternal aunt Alix was the wife of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, who was famously assassinated with his ...

Tsarevich Alexei’s short life was full of pain and suffering: he was afflicted by a congenital disease his entire life, and was shot by the Bolsheviks at the age of 13. When Alexandra Feodorovna ...