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 ...

Russian state TV hails 'Putin the Emperor' in delusional diatribe after chilling speech ...

(CNN)-- Preliminary results from a U.S. military laboratory show that remains exhumed outside the Russian city of Yekaterinburg in 2007 belong to two children of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II ...

The events of 1917 changed the course of Russian, and indeed world, history. But as these remarkable then-and-now pictures show, pockets of Russia's two largest cities have endured almost ...

Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...

Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries overnight to July 17, 1918. Located at the site now is the altar of the lower ...

Great-grandson of Emperor Alexander III said one of the ... on the centenary anniversary since the tragic death of Czar Nicholas II and his family, Paul Edward Kulikovsky, the great-grandson ...

The reasons for the summary and unexpected transference of the ex-Tsar and his family to Siberia ... by a ballet dancer once the favorite of Nicholas II—and shouted his political platform ...

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...

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 ...

Russification meant that a loyal part of the Empire had become an enemy of the Tsar. During Nicholas II’s reign, the Black Hundreds was formed. This was an extreme nationalist movement that ...