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

Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in 1918.Credit: Alamy/File Hasegawa paints a convincing portrait of Nicholas as not only uninterested but way out of his depth as regards ...

Smith was not, in fact, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who historians believe to have been executed via firing squad along with the rest of the Russian Imperial Romanov family during ...

From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...

South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.

On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...

History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the late tsarevich but also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing ...

An earlier version of this article misstated the relationship between Czar Nicholas II and Queen Victoria ... 19 days in 1957 — investigates his family’s harrowing past to better understand ...