MOSCOW — The last czar and his family were victims of political repression, Russia's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, formally restoring the Romanov name and furthering a Kremlin effort to encourage ...

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On July 17, 1918, Russian Czar Nicholas II (seated, 2nd-R) and his family were killed by Bolsheviks who had held them captive for two months. Seated, from left are Marie, Queen Alexandra, the czar ...

From the moment he was crowned Tsar, his reign was an utter catastrophe. Congress averts government shutdown after Senate passes spending bill Powerful Tugboats Pull Massive $13 Billion US ...

An expert on modern Russian/Soviet history, Hasegawa provides a detailed account of how Nicholas II’s poor leadership and attachment to archaic notions of autocracy led to the end of the Romanov ...

In his newly released book, “The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs” (Basic Books), author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, an emeritus professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, ...

In January 1917, a few weeks before the overthrow of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, Leon Trotsky came to New York. The socialist revolutionary was then in his late 30s and for the previous decade ...

After the 1917 Russian Revolution — during which the last tzar, Nicholas II, abdicated the throne — the term started popping up in other contexts.

Russia's Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday that Czar Nicholas II be recognized as a victim of Soviet repression, a symbolic victory for monarchists who said it would help draw a line under Russia ...

As the wealthiest man in the country, Nicholas II was afforded every luxury available, one being his very own train. Equipped with 10 cars, family suite, kitchen, office and more.

In 1918, Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family were killed by Bolsheviks who had held them captive for two months. Though the whereabouts of their bodies was unknown for years, later DNA tests ...