As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known ... Imperial Family had been unlawfully persecuted and killed by the feared Cheka, the forerunner to the KGB. ' ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in 1918 had no justification, describing it as a monstrous crime rather than ...

Rasputin was killed by a group of Russian nobles, including Prince Felix Youssupov (Czar Nicholas’ niece’s husband) and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (Nicholas’ cousin) in December 1916.

In 1917, Czar Nicholas abdicated as ruler of Russia amid ... more than 1,000 people had been killed by security forces. In 2019, a gunman opened fire at two New Zealand mosques, killing 51 people ...