Personal Archive “Had Matilda given birth to the child of Nicholas II, the emperor and the court would have known about it. Matilda was a very ambitious woman who knew what she wanted and always ...

Tsarevich Alexei’s short life was full of pain and suffering: he was afflicted by a congenital disease his entire life, and was shot by the Bolsheviks at the age of 13. When Alexandra Feodorovna ...

Living up to her reputation as the grandmother of Europe, Queen Victoria of England met with her granddaughter Tsarina Alexandra and Alexandra's husband, Tsar Nicholas II, after the couple ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...

After Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries early on the morning of July 17, 1918, a collection of the royal family's personal photographs was smuggled out of ...