Synthesizing a variety of sources, British historian Rappaport (Joseph Stalin) details the Romanovs’ last two weeks, imprisoned in a cramped private house in Ekaterinburg, a violently anti-czarist ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and ...

When Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov married Victoria Bettarini in St. Petersburg on Oct. 1, their lavish nuptials marked a rather epic return to the world stage for the Romanov family, whose ...

THE MURDER OF THE ROMANOVS—Paul Bulygin—McBride ($3). Though all the world knows that the late Tsar Nicholas II of All the Russias and his family were shot to death in a cellar in Ekaterinburg, few U.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." For the Romanov family at the Ipatiev House, Tuesday July 16 in Ekaterinburg was much like any other ...

It all started with the reign of Michael I, the first Russian Tsar of the House of Romanov, upon his election to the post (by parliament, not the people) in 1613. He lived till the ripe old age of 49 ...