A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 8, 1917, protests against food ...

ST. PETERSBURG, July 17. /TASS/. Twelve members of the Romanov House have come to St. Petersburg to pay homage to last Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family members marking 100 years since the ...

Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in ... for the blunders and crimes committed by the Romanov family, has finally exhausted its ...

Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age, late Tsar of All the Russias ... So passed Nicholas II, and the Romanovs, to be followed by a third Nicholas, called Lenin, and the House of the Soviets.

Marco Polo (1254--1324) is likely the most famous merchant who ever lived. Even small children know his name, thanks to the ...

Smith was not, in fact, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who historians believe to have been executed via firing squad along with the rest of the Russian Imperial Romanov family during ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to ... into it and still leave room for China and India. That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Mongolia ...

Today is the 94th anniversary of the murders of Tsar Nicholas, the last monarch of Russia, and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks. I had never thought much about this crime, nor of the ...

The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of ...