Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the ill-fated Russian dynasty enters the cultural conversation yet again, we take a deeper look at one of the facts The Crown ...

A dual examination of the decline of imperial Russia and the backdrop against which Rasputin’s influence was enabled ...

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 ...

For a virtually illiterate peasant born in the depths of Siberia in January 1869, Grigori Rasputin had the most extraordinary ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 poses some initial challenges for the general reader, for whom it's written. At 784 pages (including appendices, maps and illustrations), and covering ...

Season five, episode six of The Crown, “Ipatiev House,” focuses on the relationship between the British royal family and the Romanovs, and how Prince Philip's DNA helped to identify the Romanovs' ...

One of Russia’s most intriguing mysteries has added yet another chapter. On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and ...

Unlike most of The Crown’s fifth season, episode six does not take place in the 1990s. Instead, it opens in World War I–era Britain, when the House of Windsor was headed not by Queen Elizabeth but by ...

“Paris is full of Russians,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in 1922 soon after arriving in the French capital. “They are drifting along . . . in a childish sort of hopefulness that things will somehow be all ...

Today, we have endless text chains and group selfies to prove that we're close. Back in the 1600s, they had art—lots and lots of art. An installation view of the exhibition, with Nicholas I’s vast ...