The Romanovs were the last Russian royal family to reign, and they were all executed during the 1918 revolution by the Bolsheviks. Tsarina Alexandra was one of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren, and she ...

The Siberian mystic, said to have healing powers, was a confidant of Empress Alexandra Grigory Rasputin, a mystic peasant who captivated the Russian imperial court, met his death at the hands of ...

For over a century, the name Grigori Rasputin has been synonymous with madness and debauchery. He became the face of the Russian Empire's decay. We've grown up seeing him depicted as the mad monk who ...

The British historian, who has announced a work on the Battle of Britain and predicts a war in the Baltic, devotes his new ...

Grigori Rasputin became one of the most infamous figures in Russian history because myth grew around him faster than truth. He entered the Romanov world as a wandering holy man and gained the trust of ...

Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs, by Douglas Smith. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 848 pages. $35. The Romanovs: 1613–1918, by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Knopf. 784 pages. $35. He is ...

A London courtroom. On the bench, pale and dignified in a black gown and white wig, last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest ...

In the dying years of imperial Russia, the tsar’s family was beset by concerns for their little boy. Tsarevich Alexei suffered from hemophilia, the “royal disease,” at a time when there was no ...