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 ...

With the 100th anniversary of the execution of the Russian royal family this summer comes the timely new historical novel from C.W. Gortner, “The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria ...

In 1913, the Romanovs—led by Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra—celebrated the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov. A duo of kings. Nicholas II of Russia and George V of England ...

For more than a century since the Russian Revolution, the mystery and romance of the bygone Romanov era has continued to ...

He was forced to abdicate in 1917, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty's 304-year rule ... Additionally, there was also the problem of Tsarina Alexandra's nationality. She was German, and granting ...

including the partial remains of two more individuals believed to be the missing Romanov daughter (most likely Maria), as well as the tsar and tsarina's only son Alexei. While DNA testing ...

Rumors swirled that Rasputin’s debauched behavior included seducing the tsarina. Although he almost certainly was not her lover, he did have affairs with untold numbers of women at the Romanov ...

The Tsarina was at her sonÍs side from the first onset of the attack. She watched over him, surrounding him with her tender love and care, and trying by a thousand attentions to alleviate his ...

Queen Elizabeth II's husband is the grandnephew of the last tsarina, Alexandra Romanov, and great-great-grandson of Nicholas I. His DNA was used to identify the murdered Romanovs' remains.