The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia, and there is no evidence that he relished a position he inherited ...

The remains of Russia’s last czar and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918, will be reburied next February in St. Petersburg, Mayor Anatoly Sobchak said Tuesday. Sobchak told Interf… ...

2000-08-15 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- The Russian Orthodox Church announced the canonization of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, and his immediate family yesterday for their "meekness" and "poise" when ...

Proposals to make saints of Czar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra and the children--Alexei, Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia--had been a controversial issue both within and outside the church.

Incredible photos of Russia's last czar, royal family surface. Dozens of candid photos showing Czar Nicholas II and the Romanov family boating and enjoying sleigh rides during the twilight years ...

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

In 1909, 10 years before the assassination of the tsar and his family, two kings and their families gathered for a final meal. ... Russia’s Czar Nicholas II. It was a seismic summit.

Tsar Nicholas II (center) with his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their son Alexis (being held by a Cossack) during celebrations at the Kremlin to mark the Romanov family's 300 years in power.

Czar Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, by nearly all accounts, was a decent fellow who had absolutely no business ruling an outhouse, much less the largest country in the world.

All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a ...