News about Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

I hadn’t realized it, but Czar Nicholas II was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church (in the West in 1981, back in Russia in 2000). Now a forthcoming Russian movie,”Matilda,” about his ...

The Abdication of Nicholas II Left Russia Without a Czar for the First Time in 300 Years Events in Saint Petersburg 100 years ago brought the end to the Romanov dynasty ...

Denis, a member of the Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers, marches with a banner to commemorate 100 years since the killing of Tsar Nicholas II, in Spaso-Andronikov Monastery in Moscow, July 17 ...

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France and the U.S., appearing in films and on the pages of glossy magazines ...

Russia has exhumed Czar Nicholas II and his wife as part of a new investigation into the 1918 slaying of the Russian royal family.

The Russian Orthodox Church made the Czar and his family saints in 2000. Controversial film #Matilda tells the story of future czar #Nicholas II's infatuation with a half-Polish ballet dancer.

A gruesome find in the mountains Bolsheviks killed Czar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra and their five children in 1918 as Russia plunged into bitter civil war.

In January 1917, Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia while Bolshevik Vladmir Lenin lived in exile. By October, revolution had reversed their roles, leaving the former tsar a prisoner and Lenin holding ...

In 2008, scientists used bone and tooth fragments to identify the remains as those of the two missing children of Czar Nicholas II: 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, the emperor's only son and heir ...

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. He did as much ...

Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the armies of all the Russias under command of his tall, big-boned second cousin, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I.