Another photograph taken by the tsar the same year - 1916 - shows Tsarevich Alexei, heir to an autocratic throne that would be abolished only months later, posing on a tree in winter with his ...

The fact that a dozen members of the Romanov family did manage to flee abroad, including Tsar Nicholas II’s mother Maria Feodorovna, his sister Xenia and brother-in-law Alexandr has long fuelled ...

The emperor and his family were killed in the basement of the house they were exiled to in Yekaterinburg during the night of July 17, 1918. Just a year before, in March he had abdicated the throne ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MOSCOW: Russia's Supreme Court has formally rehabilitated the country's last tsar, Nicholas II, and declared his family were victims ...

The slaughter of the Romanov family and servants, which took place exactly 100 years ago on this day in 1918, was one of the seminal events of the 20th century.