In the liminal space of a Beverly Hills garden, the spirit of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff examines his life as his corporeal ...

Instead, they are fated to endure their status from birth to death ... of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia, and there is ...

Grand Duke George Romanov’s great-grandfather, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, was amongst the Romanov family members who managed to escape the Russian Revolution, which resulted in Tsar Nicholas II ...

He had devoted his life to serving his master - and, even in the face of certain death, that loyalty never ... younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as ...

In 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their children—Olga ... who insisted that she was Anastasia for decades even until her death in 1984. A postmortem DNA test was conducted on her hair ...

April is poetry month, so we’ll be sprinkling a few poems here and there for patrons to enjoy. These books, and many poetry ...

Another cause of death was asphyxiation by carbon dioxide poisoning ... resulting in a fire where 150 people lost their lives. Tsar Nicholas II’s 1914 prohibition, often cited as one of the catalysts ...

The tiara had been a wedding gift from Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia ... as reported by ABC News. The Duke’s death left a profound emptiness in the Queen’s life, yet ...

Prince Nicholas Konstantinovich was born on January 2, 1850, in St. Petersburg, into the family of Prince Konstantin Nikolayevich, the brother of Russian Tsar (emperor) Alexander II. As the eldest ...

Upon the death of Nicholas I, Alexander II became Tsar, who by comparison was liberal in his views and approach. A wave of reforms followed with the momentous decision to abolish serfdom and address ...

Without explanation, the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg has canceled a performance of I Killed the Tsar scheduled for June 5. The play is a post-documentary drama about the execution of Russia’s last ...