“What will happen to me and all of Russia? I’m not prepared to be a Czar, I never wanted to become one, I know nothing of the business of ruling. I don’t know how to carry out the duties.” (Nicholas ...

AsThe Crown hits our screens once again, viewers may be surprised to see that the show will draw back the curtain on yet another royal family. The fifth season of the wildly popular Netflix show ...

"The Crown" tells the story of the reign of the (now deceased) Queen Elizabeth II, who was on the throne from 1953 until just this past September. But the story of the Windsors is more than the story ...

A few rushed orders set Europe on a path to disaster. This story examines how Tsar Nicholas II’s hesitation, confused ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Season five, episode six of The Crown, “Ipatiev House,” focuses on the relationship between 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 latest in an intermittent series looking back at groundbreaking, newsmaking, appalling and amusing events in government history. On March 15, 1917, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the throne of Russia, ...

Servicemen of the Wagner Group military company sit atop a tank as civilians pose for a photo at the headquarters of the Southern Military District in a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June ...

Russian Czar Nicholas ii commissioned a photographer, one that pioneered colourized photography, to travel through the Russian Empire. With his specially equipped railway carriage, he captured the way ...