the Tsar and his wife simply transferred their mystical allegiances to Rasputin's acolytes--including a mentally unstable occultist named Alexander Protopopov, whom Nicholas propped up as Interior ...

ST. PETERSBURG, July 17. /TASS/. Twelve members of the Romanov House have come to St. Petersburg to pay homage to last Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family members marking 100 years since 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 ...

Russification meant that a loyal part of the Empire had become an enemy of the Tsar. During Nicholas II’s reign, the Black Hundreds was formed. This was an extreme nationalist movement that ...

This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...