If you aren’t up to speed on your Russian history or European royal family trees, it can be a bit confusing as to how the British royal family is connected to the Romanov family, but they are ...

Each episode will profile a different branch of the family tree and feature a new cast ... The fact that a dozen members of the Romanov family did manage to flee abroad, including Tsar Nicholas ...

Henry Guttmann/Getty Images 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 ...

Alexei Romanov's relatives ran the world. Not only was he heir to the House of Romanov, the dynasty that had ruled Russia for nearly 300 years, but he had ancestors in the German and Danish royal ...

The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for centuriesThe family's reign ended in the revolution ... The Provisional Government imprisoned Nicholas, Alexandra and their five children who were sent to ...

The Russian Imperial Romanov family (which included Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna and their children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei) were imprisoned in Alexander Palace ...

We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the Romanov family ... was introduced to the royal family. Czar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra called upon Rasputin ...

After the Romanov family’s murder, Soviet officials were cagey when addressing the topic. Even shortly after the Bolsheviks announced Nicholas’s death, they were claiming that Alexandra and ...

Rumors that she might have survived the death of her family persisted ... for the future of the Romanov line. In 1913, the Romanovs—led by Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra—celebrated ...

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov married Victoria Romanovna ... world's first communist state. The royal family – Czar Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children – were executed ...

Here's how the events of the episode compare with what really happened to the Romanov dynasty ... they were married. "Alexandra was prettier, and from a grander family," she said.

Philip is the grandnephew of Alexandra Romanov, Nicholas II's wife, and the last Tsarina of Russia. He is also a cousin to the Russian royal family (more on that below). Philip's children and ...