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, ...

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 ...

AsThe Crown hits our screens once again, viewers may be surprised to see that the show will draw back the curtain on yet another royal family. The fifth season of the wildly popular Netflix show ...

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 ...

After the 1905 revolution, Russia had a chance to reform, but Tsar Nicholas II undermined political change, crushed ...

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 ...

For those readers who may not have followed the events: Matilda is a historical movie about the love affair of the future Tsar Nicholas II with the ballet dancer Matilda Kschessinka. The film covers ...

"The Crown" tells the story of the reign of the (now deceased) Queen Elizabeth II, who was on the throne from 1953 until just this past September. But the story of the Windsors is more than the story ...

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In July 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their five children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei, were executed in the basement of a mansion in Ural ...