Russia went to war in 1914 — and it destroyed the monarchy. Soldiers had no rifles, cities had no bread, and Tsar Nicholas II ...

Tourists curious about Russia's imperial past can now ride on a special train running through the Ural mountains along the ...

Grigori Rasputin, often called the "Mad Monk," was a mystic and advisor to Russia’s last imperial family, the Romanovs. Rising from obscurity, he gained influence through claims of healing the ...

The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...

The reconstruction of the stories of witnesses and participants in the execution of the royal family, the investigation of which has not yet been completed. Many of the evidence and investigation ...

The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg. By Ivan Nechepurenko For the groom, a Romanov and descendant of the imperial throne, and ...