Prince Felix Yusupov killed Rasputin on December 30, 1916. Yusupov hatched a conspiracy to assassinate Rasputin after witnessing his growing influence over the royal family.

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...

ITAR-TASS/. Russian Emperor Nicholas II’s youngest daughter, Grad Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, might have escaped execution in 1918, lived up to 83 years and died in the US under the surname ...

Charles Gibbes Paveliev Tsarevich Alexei was aged 13 when he was executed with the rest of ... Nikolaevna was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II A diary by Gibbes held in the Bodleian ...

The Romanovs were held captive in the crumbling Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for 78 days before their execution ... who married Tsar Alexander III and mothered Nicholas, who would ...

Dr. Tony Donaldson revisits a forgotten episode in Sri Lanka’s history when Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, spent 12 unforgettable days in Ceylon The final years of Tsarist Russia were ...

before Nicholas married and became tsar. After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 the imperial family was summarily executed by communists in 1918. Mr Dobrynin said the cars wrecked by fire early on ...

closely narrates the tumultuous backdrop and captivating personalities of the last tsar’s undoing — Nicholas and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. An expert on modern Russian/Soviet ...

A brutal civil war followed, leading to the death of more than 10 million Russians – amongst them Tsar Nicholas II and his family, executed by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg in July 1918.