Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived an inept king and a scorned queen (versions vary; in some she may be wicked, insane, abominable, all of the above). They needed an heir, but ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and ...

Fri, November 25, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC As the ill-fated Russian dynasty enters the cultural conversation yet again, we take a deeper look at one of the facts The Crown gets right: the house where they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Tuesday in Yekaterinburg, Russia, a large industrial city in the foothills of the Ural Mountains, a gathering of hundreds of ...

Mathew Weiner's follow up to Mad Men is The Romanoffs, an anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day descendants of the Romanov family. Here's what we know ...

This month marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most notorious and shocking political-related killings of all time. That’s when Tsar Nicholas II of Russia – who abdicated after the Bolshevik ...

Service, the author of “The Last of the Tsars,” is an emeritus professor of Russian history at Oxford and a Hoover Institution senior fellow. The Romanovs celebrated their dynasty’s tricentennial in ...

One of Russia’s most intriguing mysteries has added yet another chapter. On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and ...

In 1885, Tsar Alexander III landed on the perfect Easter gift for his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna: a bespoke egg commissioned from Peter Carl Faberge, a master goldsmith of the jewelry company ...

The Romanovs (ruling family of Russia) in 1913. Nicholas II (1868-1918), Tsar of Russia 1894-1917, with his wife and children. On Tuesday in Yekaterinburg, Russia, a large industrial city in the ...