The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs ... have been happier as a country squire, devoted to his family. But he was cursed with an unshakeable belief that ...

Bolsheviks executed the czar's family and a few servants July 17 ... where bone fragments of Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their three daughters were exhumed. Those bodies were solemnly ...

MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in 1918 had no justification, describing it as a monstrous crime rather than ...

Nicholas II, his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four loyal servants. Rappaport, a British author who’s written extensively about the former Imperial Family and the Russian ...

The October 1917 revolution, the civil war between the Bolsheviks and White Tsarist forces, and the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918 were far away from the halcyon Ceylonese days ...

The tragic story of Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife ...

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of ...

In autumn 2015, investigators resumed a probe into the death of Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family who were executed in July 1918 as part of criminal proceedings initiated in 1993 when a ...

The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra ... disaster for the monarchy and for Russia. The imperial family was brought into disrepute as the Tsarina fell under ...