The Fabergé eggs are the intricately created Easter gifts crafted by Peter Carl Fabergé for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Fabergé presented the eggs to the royal couple ...

Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries overnight to July 17, 1918. Located at the site now is the altar of the lower ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively. He made poor decisions that led to worsening relations with the government and increased hardship for civilians and soldiers alike. Nicholas ...

A gift in1910 just 8 years before the Czar and ... made by Faberge, in shape of the Imperial Russian Eagle set with diamonds and sapphires. These were given to Harrogate boy Nicholas Allen as ...

This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...