Privileged though they may be, hereditary monarchs are denied a basic freedom that the rest of us enjoy. Their lives aren’t quite their own: unless they succumb to the self-destruction of abdication, ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family were shot in Yekaterinburg in 1918 MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church community has some questions about the results of the examinations as ...

By 1908, seven years after arriving in Russia as a 25-year-old, he was tutor to the five children of Tsar Nicholas II. He would stay with the family even after the tsar was overthrown and the ...

So passed Nicholas II, and the Romanovs ... not only with respect to the immediate family of the Tsar, but also his near relatives, the Grand Dukes and Princes who were murdered about the same ...

TASS/. Investigation of the death of Russia’s last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family goes on for many years and the cornerstone problem the identity of the human remains found near Yekaterinburg ...

Tsar Nicholas II was the son of Alexander III ... Although he had abdicated willingly, the revolutionaries put him and his family under house arrest, then sent them under guard to Tobolsk and finally ...