Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age ... the executioners were tired and probably hurried. They sat down at last beneath the pine trees to eat their lunch, letting fall the telltale eggshells.

The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for centuriesThe family's reign ended in the revolution of 1917This is what happened to the Romanov family What is the true story of the last Romanovs and their ...

The Romanovs, descendents of Peter The Great, were the last imperial dynasty to rule over Russia. Nicholas II – the last Emperor of Russian – and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks on ...

Her new book, The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family, out this week, sets out to answer that question. She spoke with Smithsonian ...

TASS/. The Romanov Family will always remain grateful to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for the attention she paid to preserving the memory of the last Russian tsar’s children ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613). The last tsar of the previous dynasty, a weak son of Ivan the Terrible, died in 1589.

Romanov stopped 30 of 33 shots in Friday's 4-2 loss to the Oilers. The fourth goal was an empty-netter.

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.