Privileged though they may be, hereditary monarchs are denied a basic freedom that the rest of us enjoy. Their lives aren’t quite their own: unless they succumb to the self-destruction of abdication, ...

Having been raised in piety, Tsar Nicholas ever sought to rule in a spirit consonant with the precepts of Orthodoxy and the best traditions of his nation. Tsaritsa Alexandra, a grand-daughter of Queen ...

Russia's Czar Nicholas II meets and marries the German Princess Alexandra, but their union causes tension with the disapproving Russian populace in this portrait of the country's last royal family.

The Tsar’s whole body then began to grow light ... recall her dedicated service in the blood and disease-filled hospitals of wartime Moscow and St. Petersburg. Despite that Nicholas and Alexandra ...

Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their four daughters, Grand Duchesses Anastasia, Maria, Olga and Tatiana, and son Tsarevich Alexei - along with four royal staff members - were killed on 17 ...

John Boyne's haunting novel travels to the heart of the Russian empire where young imperial family bodyguard Georgy Jachmenev is privy to the secrets of Tsar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra ...

Mikhail was awoken to become the first tsar of Russia ... The Provisional Government imprisoned Nicholas, Alexandra and their five children who were sent to a palace in Tobolsk where they were ...

The last tsar of the previous dynasty ... many powerful Romanovs were assassinated, including Nicholas, Alexandra, their children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei.

Tsar Nicholas II, pictured here wearing the golden ... He along with his five children, his wife Alexandra, and three servants were executed by firing squad on July 17, 1918.

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 ...

In the midst of revolution in 1917, Russia, the Romanov family — Russia’s last imperial dynasty — met a violent and tragic end. Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their five children are ...