Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age ... the executioners were tired and probably hurried. They sat down at last beneath the pine trees to eat their lunch, letting fall the telltale eggshells.

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.” ...

(2/2) We join the captive Romanovs as they are moved from The Alexander Palace to Siberia and then to Ekaterinburg, where their dreadful murder awaits them. It's a story that still has the power to ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613). The last tsar of the previous dynasty, a weak son of Ivan the Terrible, died in 1589.

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

The New York Islanders have turned a corner on the season with great defense leading the way. They’ve allowed only seven goals in the last six games and are coming off a 3-0 shutout on Jan.

It was the first shock move from Vladmir Romanov but it would not be the last in the Lithuanian's turbulent Tynecastle reign. Claudio Ranieri and Bobby Robson were mentioned as possible ...