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 ...

Prince Leopold succumbed to an injury-induced hemorrhage at 30, and his ... royal family. Irene's two sons also battled with hemophilia. Alice's other daughter, Alix, became Tsar Nicholas II ...

Nicholas gave up his throne and was soon taken into captivity, along with his family. More than 300 years of Romanov rule over Russia was at an end. Three of the former tsar's daughters along with ...

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 ...

It was a tranquil spot, undisturbed by the revolution; then, too, it boasted a comfortable Governor's Palace which had been prepared for the ex-Tsar and his family. But why, asks Nicholas Sokolov ...

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 ...

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

He brought the country, through his new capital at St. Petersburg, directly into the family of European ... through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü ...

Tsar Nicholas II, being the last reigning Emperor of Russia ... and amusements he'd undertaken with his family. In one letter to his wife that he wrote from the Russian war room, he spoke vaguely of ...

As a result Nicholas would often spend his time looking after ... drawn from the members of the Royal family or nobility. The civil service helped the Tsar run the Russian Empire, performing ...

Tsar Nicholas ... and soldiers alike. Nicholas refused to accept any reduction in the absolute power he held. He was detached from the plight of the Russian people and his policies also alienated ...