The October 1917 revolution, the civil war between the Bolsheviks and White Tsarist forces, and the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918 were far away from the halcyon Ceylonese days ...

MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. Kremlin does not comment on the probe investigating whether the murder of last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family members was ritual, Russian Presidential ...

So passed Nicholas II, and the Romanovs ... not only with respect to the immediate family of the Tsar, but also his near relatives, the Grand Dukes and Princes who were murdered about the same ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of railroads that ...

Tsar Nicholas II, being the last reigning Emperor of Russia ... assuring more liberal-minded critics within his own family that he would "devote all my strength to maintain, for the good of the whole ...

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

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man ... and a provisional government installed in his place. Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... government was called into question. The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control.

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the late tsarevich but also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing ...