In the spring of 1917 the imperial family of Russia, the Romanovs, teetered on the edge of ruin. After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II the Russian monarchy collapsed and the family was placed under ...

"The Crown" tells the story of the reign of the (now deceased) Queen Elizabeth II, who was on the throne from 1953 until just this past September. But the story of the Windsors is more than the story ...

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 ...

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 ...

More Russian than this it does not get: Tsar Nicholas II had renowned Fabergé designer Alma Pihl craft the egg for his mother, the Dowager Empress, as an Easter present in 1913. Here, the backstory.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 Russian ...

* Tsar's family ask Russia to reopen criminal case * Tsar Nicholas II was murdered with his family in 1918 By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The self-proclaimed heir to Russia's imperial ...

The Louvre Museum recently acquired a 19th century triptych created by the House of Fabergé and presented as a gift to Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra for the birth of their first ...

Rachmaninoff and the Tsar follows the renowned composer Sergei Rachmaninoff as he navigates life after escaping Russia during the 1917 revolution. Longing for his homeland and haunted by memories of ...