In the early morning of July 17, 1918, Bolshevik troops led the Russian imperial Romanov family to the basement of a Yekaterinburg house. There, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." For the Romanov family at the Ipatiev House, Tuesday July 16 in Ekaterinburg was much like any other ...

COPENHAGEN, January 11. /TASS/. Prince Dimitri Romanov, the oldest relative of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, was laid to rest at the Vedbaek cemetery 20 km north of the Danish capital on ...

Lucy Worsley concludes her history of the Romanov dynasty, investigating how the family's grip on Russia unraveled in their final century. She shows how the years 1825-1918 were bloody and traumatic, ...

Russia’s Investigative Committee is taking another look at the 1918 murders of the Romanov royal family in the hope that new genetic testing can finally confirm the identity of remains thought to ...

In popular lore, the impression that most likely comes to mind regarding the Romanovs is one of failure: a dynasty that came crashing down in the maelstrom of war and revolution in the early 20th ...

Maria Fyodorovna and Aleksandr III during a trip to Denmark in 1893 (Public domain) The remains of Maria Fyodorovna, the Danish princess who became empress of Russia in 1866, are due to be reburied in ...

The last image anyone in Scotland has of Vladimir Romanov is from a grainy news item broadcast on Russian TV two years ago. Romanov is being interviewed with snow all around him, a huge black ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917. They ascended the throne at the end of one of the most critical periods of Russian history, known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613). The last ...

The Sept. 28 Book World review of "Secret Lives of the Tsars" purported to discuss "Romanov Russia," but it is worth pointing out that Catherine the Great was not a Romanov by birth. She was born in ...

A descendant of Russia’s imperial Romanov dynasty married his Italian bride Friday in the country’s first royal wedding in more than a century. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov tied the knot ...