The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...

Russian Czar Nicholas ii commissioned a photographer, one that pioneered colourized photography, to travel through the ...

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 ...

Privileged though they may be, hereditary monarchs are denied a basic freedom that the rest of us enjoy. Their lives aren’t quite their own: unless they succumb to the self-destruction of abdication, ...

MOSCOW — The remains of the last czar’s son and heir to the Russian throne, missing since the royal family was gunned down nine decades ago by Bolsheviks in a basement room, may have been found, an ...

The Russians buried Czar Nicholas II on Friday in true imperial fashion, beneath a ceiling of cherubim peeking from clouds, in a cathedral of mountainous oak and linden carvings sheathed in gold, and ...