One of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century has been put to rest: DNA analysis of bone fragments has proven that two of Czar Nicholas' children believed to have escaped were killed with ...

Their lives aren’t quite their own: unless they succumb to the self-destruction of abdication ... The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs.

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of ...

April 16th has been a day marked by a diverse range of significant historical events that have shaped the world in profound ...

This all changed in 1917 with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the overthrow of the Tsarist regime. In February 1917, the Imperial Porcelain Factory became the State Porcelain Factory.