Prosecutors announced Friday that they have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archaeologist reported that he may have found the missing remains of Nicholas II's son and heir to the throne.The...

There is a "high degree of probability" that bone fragments found recently near the Russian city of Yekaterinburg are those of a daughter and son of the last czar, forensics experts said Friday.If confirmed, the find would fill in a missing chapter in the story...

Russia's highest court on Thursday refused to recognize the executed last czar Nicholas II and his family as victims of political repression — a ruling Kremlin critics said was dictated by the government's reluctance to condemn the bloodiest chapters of the country's Communist past.The Supreme...

Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering, from his own screenplay, very expressively projects his own feelings about the tumultuous changes taking place in the King’s Cross section in North London, under the impetus of an ambitious urban-renewal project in an immigrant-swollen area rife with crime and...

The year 1894 marked the beginning of the end of the proud Romonov Dynasty in Russia spanning some three hundred years. Czar Alexander III died suddenly and with no warning from liver failure. His young, inexperienced son Nicholas was left to take control of the enormous Russian empire.

This essay examines to what extent Nicholas's character led to the collapse of the Romanovs. It also looks at Rasputin, the nature of the regime and WWII as contributing factors.

Essay provides a description for the last Imperial Family of Russia: The Romanovas.