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 ...

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei were brutally murdered at Ipatiev House, on Tuesday, July 16, 1918. But their ...

More than a century after a tragic ending, the final Romanov mystery has been solved. In a stunning announcement, the Russian Investigative Committee has confirmed that bones discovered in a forest ...

Nicholas and Alexandra had loved each other for years, but it wasn't until 1894 that she agreed to convert to Orthodoxy, a requirement for the wife of the heir to the Russian throne. They were engaged ...

Crown Prince Alexis and Grand Duchess Maria were slain in Yekaterinburg in the Urals together with their parents, another three daughters of the Czar and a selected group of court servants in 1918 ...

“Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s eight-episode Amazon series “The Romanoffs” dives into the psyche of troubled souls who believe they’re descendants of the Russian royal family. But who was this ...

Do you remember observing Diana Spencer or more lately Kate Middleton on TV? If so, you will appreciate the sense of loss felt by earlier royals-watchers. At the start of the 20th century they ...

Service, the author of “The Last of the Tsars,” is an emeritus professor of Russian history at Oxford and a Hoover Institution senior fellow. The Romanovs celebrated their dynasty’s tricentennial in ...

Season five, episode six of The Crown, “Ipatiev House,” focuses on the relationship between the British royal family and the Romanovs, and how Prince Philip's DNA helped to identify the Romanovs' ...