On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1918, Ipatiev House was turned into a fortified prison for ex-Tsar Nicholas II and his family.Heritage Images - Getty Images As ...

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“Paris is full of Russians,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in 1922 soon after arriving in the French capital. “They are drifting along . . . in a childish sort of hopefulness that things will somehow be all ...

Russia Beyond (Feodor III Alexeevich of Russia / Hermitage Museum / Public Domain, Teremnoy palace interior. Moscow Kremlin, Russia (CC BY-SA 3.0)) It was very important for a tsar to be healthy.

On this day, one hundred years ago, one of the great crimes of the 20th century was carried out by the Bolsheviks, in Ekaterinburg. They murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, children, and servants.

One of Russia’s most intriguing mysteries has added yet another chapter. On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and ...

The Tsar Nicholas II and his son Alexei in capitivity in Tobolsk in 1917. Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University/Wikimedia Commons The 1918 ...

The twentieth century was not kind to the Romanovs. The night of July 16–17 marks the centenary of the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family by their Bolshevik guards at Yekaterinburg. As the ...

For a virtually illiterate peasant born in the depths of Siberia in January 1869, Grigori Rasputin had the most extraordinary impact on history. In fact, muses Sir Antony Beevor, the Russian mystic ...