Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution. The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 7.--A curious change has come over Russia in the last few years. When I left St. Petersburg three years ago the kind, liberal-minded Czar Alexander II. was gradually lifting ...

The assassination of Alexander II of Russia in 1881 is depicted. A dozen years passed before the next attempt. On April 2, 1879, as the czar took his customary morning stroll, Alexander Solovyov ...

Among them is the blood-stained shirt of Czar Alexander II of Russia (Alexander the Liberator) which he wore in the last hours of his life before his assassination on 13 March 1881.

The mayor’s father, known in exile as Dmitry Romanovsky-Ilyinsky, was the Grand Duke Dmitry, grandson of Czar Alexander II, the reformer who abolished serfdom in 1861.

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

Czar Alexander III and his wife, Maria Feodorovna, posed for a photo in about 1885 with their children, including Nicholas II, the future czar, standing in back. Alexander went by the title ...

Maria Feodorovna initially was betrothed to Czar Alexander II's son, Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich, but he died when the princess was 17. In his will, he asked that she marry his brother ...

Before Lincoln Issued the Emancipation Proclamation, This Russian Czar Freed 20 Million Serfs The parallels between the U.S. president and Alexander II, both of whom fought to end servitude in ...

Russia has exhumed the remains of Czar Nicholas II and his wife in a bid to identify their missing children. Seven members of the Romanov family were killed in 1918, but only five were buried together ...

Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until ...