The last official tsar of Russia was Tsar Nicholas II, who abdicated on March 15, 1917, following the Russian Revolution. It ended more than three centuries of rule by the Romanov family. Nicholas II ...

Editorial: Former tsar Nicholas II and his family shot at Ekaterinburg, in the Urals, by the order of the local Soviet Bones found by Russian builder finally solve riddle of the missing Romanovs ...

Drawn to its promise of a “trad” conservative lifestyle, young American men are increasingly converting to Russian Orthodoxy.

SOCHI, Russia, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was not a tsar, saying he had been elected by the Russian people to serve a certain term in office. Putin, a ...

King George V appeared to regret not helping his cousin Tsar Nicholas II and his family escape Russia and their eventual death. When he learned of the death of the Romanovs and their five children, ...

The tsar and the president / Marilyn P. Swezey -- Alexander II, tsar-liberator / Andrei D. Yanovskiy -- Accession to power and the coronation / Ludmila M. Kanaeva -- The tsar's special attribute / ...