Colorist, professor, and historian of the Romanov dynasty Olga Shirnina is bringing photos from the Romanov costume ball of ...

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 ...

A ceasefire in Ukraine will be possible under one condition Russian President Vladimir Putin must realize that Russia is no longer capable of winning a war against Ukraine. However, he fears the fate ...

The fall of ancient dynasties still shake the ground on which we walk, making Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's The Last Tsar more relevant than one might think. The French Revolution spawned a critic, Edmund Burke ...

On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife, and his five children were woken up before dawn, led into a basement, and shot by a firing squad. Their bodies were burned, doused in acid, and ...

In October 1905, Papus, a French occultist, performed a solemn ritual amid the marble and gold of the Alexander Palace. Emperor Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, waited in silence as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Crown" tells the story of the reign of the (now deceased) Queen Elizabeth II, who was on the throne from 1953 until just this past September. But the story of the Windsors is more than the story ...