Nicholas II’s rule over Imperial Russia unraveled between 1905 and 1918. This documentary examines how his resistance to reform, his handling of unrest, and his decision to enter World War I helped ...

This video explores the life and reign of Tsar Nicholas II, Russia’s final monarch, and questions whether he was history’s worst ruler or a tragic victim of circumstance. It traces his transformation ...

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...

One hundred years ago today, the Bolsheviks slaughtered Nicholas II, his wife and children and some of his servants in the basement of the Ipatyev House in Yekaterinburg. In the years since, the ...

Ocean X recovered 900 bottles of alcohol from a 102-year-old shipwreck. Ocean X Ocean explorers have salvaged 900 bottles of booze from a ship sunk in the Baltic Sea while on its way to restock Tsar ...

Nicholas II And Family Canonized For 'Passion' Russian Orthodox Church cannonizes Czar Nicholas II and his immediate family for their 'humbleness, patience and meekness' when they were imprisoned and ...

The Bolsheviks executed the last czar, Nicholas II, and the rest of his family, including his famous daughter Anastasia, 108 years ago. Surviving snapshots open a portal into the royals’ private world ...

The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...

The fall of ancient dynasties still shake the ground on which we walk, making Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's The Last Tsar more relevant than one might think. The French Revolution spawned a critic, Edmund Burke ...