The dramatic end of Nicholas II’s reign in Russia was one of the turning points of the early 20th century. Could he have ...

"Putin becomes, in the words of one monk I interviewed, an 'echo' of the last czar," Riccardi-Swartz notes. "Folks like this ...

(JTA) – A Russian Justice Ministry official repeated a local bishop’s claim that Jews murdered the last czar for ritual purposes, spurring a protest by Russia’s largest Jewish group.

The painting shows the last minutes of one of the aristocratic elite taken out by Ivan IV. Wikimedia Commons Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of ...

MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in 1918 had no justification, describing it as a monstrous crime rather than ...