Incredible photos of Russia's last czar, royal family surface. Dozens of candid photos showing Czar Nicholas II and the Romanov family boating and enjoying sleigh rides during the twilight years ...

The American ambassador to Russia, David R. Francis, had just been appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and did not speak any Russian, but he saw the Czar’s abdication as a chance for ...

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.

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 ...

2000-08-15 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- The Russian Orthodox Church announced the canonization of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, and his immediate family yesterday for their "meekness" and "poise" when ...

I hadn’t realized it, but Czar Nicholas II was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church (in the West in 1981, back in Russia in 2000). Now a forthcoming Russian movie,”Matilda,” about his ...

"There's a long-running idea in mystical Russian theology that Russia is holding back the Antichrist and is doing that specifically through the prayers of the departed Czar Nicholas II," Riccardi ...

15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. As Women’s History Month continues, we look at how Tsar Nicholas II of Russia’s abdication on ...

The Russian Investigative Committee has exhumed the bones of Czar Nicholas II and his wife as part of a new probe into the 1918 murder of the royal family.

In January 1917, Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia while Bolshevik Vladmir Lenin lived in exile. By October, revolution had reversed their roles, leaving the former tsar a prisoner and Lenin holding ...

At that decadent court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, ... RUSSIA: New Tsar; RUSSIA: New Tsar. 3 minute read. TIME. April 19, 1926 12:00 AM GMT-5.

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 ...