The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...

The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. The creators answer the questions of how to take the ...

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 last tsar of the previous dynasty, a weak son of Ivan the Terrible, died in 1589. After which followed a period of foreign invasion and internal strife, and the throne was occupied by a series ...

Pu Yi, the Manchurian emperor of China who ascended the throne in 1908 at the age of three, is a prisoner in the palace he rules over. Outside, real power changes hands with each coup d'etat.

A mixture of reenactment news reel footage archival film and rare documents including the diaries and intimate correspondence of Nicholas Alexandra Recreates the atmosphere at the time of their ...

The ex-Tsar breakfasted, studied ... Wheels were broken, horses exhausted, and passengers bruised and sore. But at last the two hundred and eighty versts to Tiumen, the nearest railroad station ...

TASS/. Tens of thousands of pilgrims walked more than 20 kilometers in an overnight procession in the Urals to honor the memory of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family who were killed ...