One of the greatest mysteries (and greatest cross-over) of both Imperial Russia and the subsequent Soviet Union was the ...

Episode six of the latest season of "The Crown" opens with a different royal family than the one viewers have grown accustomed to seeing over the past five seasons. In a flashback to the early 20th ...

The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg. By Ivan Nechepurenko For the groom, a Romanov and descendant of the imperial throne, and ...

Explore the dark legacy of the Romanov Imperial House, which ruled Russia for 300 years and made numerous enemies. This video delves into four curses and ominous prophecies linked to the Romanov ...

On a rainy afternoon in 1891, five years before he would be crowned tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov was riding a rickshaw through the narrow streets of Otsu, Japan, when one of the policemen tasked ...

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Royal jewels that belonged to Russia's Romanov imperial dynasty before they were smuggled out of the country during the 1917 revolution are set to be auctioned off by Sotheby's. A sapphire-and-diamond ...

PITTSFIELD — With his newest music-theater piece, “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” 56-year-old pianist-actor-playwright Hershey Felder takes a twist on a formula that has served him extremely well in a ...