A view of the buildings at the Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary and Russian History Foundation where dozens of monks live and seminary students study. The monks harvest honey and honeycombs from ...
The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...
More than a century after a tragic ending, the final Romanov mystery has been solved. In a stunning announcement, the Russian Investigative Committee has confirmed that bones discovered in a forest ...
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, ...
Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...
(Reuters) - Russia has closed an investigation into the shooting by Bolshevik revolutionaries of Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Thursday. The ...