Few people practiced the art of self-invention more flamboyantly than Michael Romanoff, a Hollywood restaurateur who claimed to be a member of Russia’s deposed Romanov royal family. But Romanoff was ...

Did you watch the 1997 classic “Anastasia” as a kid? We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the Romanov family in the movie – showed up in your nightmares. Or maybe you ...

According to Igor Krasnov, members of the royal family did not die immediately because they had diamonds and jewelry sewn into their clothes, and the bullets ricocheted off MOSCOW, August 23. /TASS/.

In the middle of The Crown Season 5’s retelling of the drama surrounding the royal family amid Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s tumultuous split, the series transports viewers back to 1917 and ...

Tourists curious about Russia's imperial past can now ride on a special train running through the Ural mountains along the ...

From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was Eugenia Drabrek Smetisko, commonly known as Eugenia Smith, but if you had ...