The Bolsheviks executed the last czar, Nicholas II, and the rest of his family, including his famous daughter Anastasia, 108 years ago. Surviving snapshots open a portal into the royals’ private world ...

He had devoted his life to serving his master - and, even in the face of certain death, that loyalty never wavered.

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 ...

This video explores the life and reign of Tsar Nicholas II, Russia’s final monarch, and questions whether he was history’s worst ruler or a tragic victim of circumstance. It traces his transformation ...

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on March 18, 1917, as news of Czar Nicholas II's abdication had signaled the end of the Russian ...