Synthesizing a variety of sources, British historian Rappaport (Joseph Stalin) details the Romanovs’ last two weeks, imprisoned in a cramped private house in Ekaterinburg, a violently anti-czarist ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." For the Romanov family at the Ipatiev House, Tuesday July 16 in Ekaterinburg was much like any other ...

On this day, one hundred years ago, one of the great crimes of the 20th century was carried out by the Bolsheviks, in Ekaterinburg. They murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, children, and servants.

THE MURDER OF THE ROMANOVS—Paul Bulygin—McBride ($3). Though all the world knows that the late Tsar Nicholas II of All the Russias and his family were shot to death in a cellar in Ekaterinburg, few U.

Russian Czar Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra and their children were executed by Bolshevik forces in 1918, but it was 75 years before their remains were positively identified. Courtesy Hoover ...

One of the century’s most intriguing mysteries is drawing to a close. Three weeks ago the Russian government announced that more than 75 years after their murder at the hands of the Bolsheviks, Russia ...