Both sets of remains were found around that area. The so-called second burial spot is about 230 feet (70 meters) away from the first grave discovered in 1991, where bone fragments of Nicholas II ...

Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...

The reasons for the summary and unexpected transference of the ex-Tsar and his family to Siberia ... by a ballet dancer once the favorite of Nicholas II—and shouted his political platform ...

Smith was not, in fact, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who historians believe to ... the then-unconfirmed status of the duchess’s remains. The family’s burial site would not ...

That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered Turkey ... Recently, modern scientific DNA testing has identified their remains allowing for a royal burial in 1998 in the Peter and ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man, answerable only to God, who rules more than 170 million people. The Tsar's armies have grown ...

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...