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 ...

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 ...

Without explanation, the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg has canceled a performance of I Killed the Tsar scheduled for June 5. The play is a post-documentary drama about the execution of Russia’s last ...

It was a thoroughly antiquated conceit, but one that Nicholas II embraced wholeheartedly, assuring more liberal-minded critics within his own family that he would "devote all my strength to maintain, ...

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 ...

The tragic story of Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), the last Czar of ... (Tom Baker), and the eventual execution of the entire family.

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the late tsarevich but also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... it led inevitably to disaster for the monarchy and for Russia. The imperial family was brought into disrepute as the Tsarina fell under the ...