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/Fotobank British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore talked to RBTH about his new, best-selling biography of the Romanov dynasty, and why the real-life exploits of Russia’s royal family are ...

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, ...