Vladimir Boiko/Global Look Press Feodor Romanov, a 17th-century bon vivant nobleman, was forced to join a monastery and spent almost a decade in captivity; however, his son Mikhail became tsar of ...
Getty Images While the Bolsheviks shot Nicholas II and his family in 1918, other members of the House of Romanov were also executed. Nevertheless, dozens more managed to flee, and today the former ...
From 1613 until the Russian Revolution in 1917, Russia was ruled by tsars and tsarinas of the Romanov Dynasty. In total, there were 18 Romanov rulers, starting with Michael Romanov. Tsar Michael I, ...
The Romanov family is the subject of a new Netflix series A new Netflix original, at the crossroads between series and documentary, "The Last Czars" chronicles the final throes of the House of Romanov ...
Simon Sebag Montefiore made his name as a historian with Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), a compelling account of life in the Soviet dictator's inner circle. In that book, Sebag Montefiore ...
A great mythos surrounds the downfall of the Romanov dynasty. It is a part of Russian history that upon first glance reads like a piece of fiction—a rising rebellion, the spooky character of Rasputin, ...
The Romanov family is having a pop culture moment. The lesser-known Romanovs are no less interesting: In 1739, the notoriously cruel Empress Anna Ivanovna built a massive ice palace for the sole ...
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