The 1978 hit Ra Ra Rasputin by Boney M is based on the life of Grigori Rasputin, a mystic who gained influence over Russia’s ...

As the lives of the Tsar and his family hung in the balance, King George V of England weighed family ties against politics.

The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia ... His adored German-born wife Alexandra, Queen Victoria’s favourite ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. Alexandra was not hugely popular in Russia.

100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor ... troops and carriages, Nicholas II and his wife empress Alexandra Feodorovna ...

The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of ...