The 1978 hit Ra Ra Rasputin by Boney M is based on the life of Grigori Rasputin, a mystic who gained influence over Russia’s ...

The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia ... His adored German-born wife Alexandra, Queen Victoria’s favourite ...

In 2008, scientists used bone and tooth fragments to identify the remains as those of the two missing children of Czar Nicholas II: 13-year ... his wife, Alexandra, and three daughters -- were ...

Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries overnight to July 17, 1918. Located at the site now is the altar of the lower ...

The victims were the former Tsar, Nicholas II, his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four loyal servants. Rappaport, a British author who’s written extensively about the former ...

The last tsar of the previous dynasty ... The relationship of Nicholas II and Alexandra, their love and their final end, and the mystery surrounding the missing children has inspired novels ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. Alexandra was not hugely popular in Russia.

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...