Controversy is stirring in Russia over a film in the works about the last Russian tsar’s affair with a famous actress, with nationalists threatening to burn theaters that plan to screen Matilda ...

The attempt in Yekaterinburg was significant for another reason: Czar Nicholas II and his family were killed there in 1918. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized them in 2000 — and conservative ...

MOSCOW – Russia's Culture Ministry says that a controversial historical film about the last Russian czar's affair with a ballerina has been cleared for release. "Matilda," which is about ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's largest operator of movie theaters says it has decided not to screen a film about the love affair between Russia's last czar and a ballerina because of safety concerns in ...

I hadn’t realized it, but Czar Nicholas II was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church (in the West in 1981, back in Russia in 2000). Now a forthcoming Russian movie,”Matilda,” about his ...

Russian police have detained four people suspected of an arson attack linked to a movie about the last Russian czar's affair with a ballerina, officials said Thursday. Skip to content.

These are the best movies about the Russian Revolution, which allow the audience to witness the fall of the last Tsars and the birth of a new nation. 'Nicholas and Alexandra' (1971) Directed by ...

Ronald Harwood has signed on to write a movie about the final days of Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family, after they were captured by the Bolsheviks, exiled to Siberia and finally executed.

Reporting from St. Petersburg — Alexei Uchitel sits in the elegant lobby cafe of the historic Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg and answers an endless stream of phone calls about his … ...

I hadn't realized it, but Czar Nicholas II was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church (in the West in 1981, back in Russia in 2000). Now a forthcoming Russian movie,"Matilda," about his affair ...