Remarkable photo albums showing the Czar Nicholas II and the Russian royal family have gone on public display for the first time. Dozens of candid photos show the Romanov family boating and ...

Nicholas II, who had been visiting military headquarters ... as Teddy Roosevelt would have done, he would still be Czar of Russia.” The centennial of the Russian Revolution has brought great ...

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 ...

2000-08-15 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- The Russian Orthodox Church announced the canonization of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, and his immediate family yesterday for their "meekness" and "poise" when ...

15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. As Women’s History Month continues, we look at how Tsar Nicholas II of Russia’s abdication on ...

"There's a long-running idea in mystical Russian theology that Russia is holding back the Antichrist and is doing that specifically through the prayers of the departed Czar Nicholas II," Riccardi ...

The triptych was purchased for the Louvre by the Society of Friends of the Louvre from the private collection of New York ...

Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the armies of ... grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I. The German pre-War penetration of Russia had been too deadly for any Russian commander to succeed.

Nicholas II and family part of 1,100 canonized for martyrdom by communists. After eight years of debate, which at times threatened to split the Russian Orthodox Church, the Council of Bishops ...

Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until ...

The Romanov family ruled until 1917, when the Russian Revolution began and Vladimir Lenin seized power, establishing the world's first communist state. The royal family – Czar Nicholas II ...