The Romanov family, Nicholas, Alexandra and their children, are brought to their prison. Inside their prison called the House for Special Purposes, the Romanov family is brought down to the basement ...

Lucy Worsley reveals how a spontaneous popular uprising swept the Russian Czar from power. The October Revolution of 1917 has gone down in history as the only Russian Revolution that really mattered.

There’s much about “The Last Czars” (Wednesday, Netflix), a vivid and transporting documentary with dramatizations, that has a distinctly modern feel. That’s notwithstanding the fact that it’s mainly ...

An elegantly produced documentary divided into eight parts and running nearly seven hours in length, The Romanovs beautifully encapsulates the epic story of the Russian Dynasty over the course of over ...