She was born Countess Natalia Pavlovna von Hohenfelsen in 1905, and was the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, uncle of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II. She escaped Russian with her ...

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (1854-1920), the spouse of Vladimir Alexandrovich (son of Emperor Alexander II), was one of the few Romanovs who managed to take her jewelry abroad after the revolution.

Thus, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, Nicholas II’s younger brother, ... Citizen Nicholas Romanov and his daughters Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana. Tobolsk, winter of 1917-1918.

The Imperial Family on duty at the Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, circa 1911. From “The Romanov Sisters,” by Helen Rappaport (Scherl - Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo ) The Imperial Family on ...

The slaughter of the Romanov family and servants, which took place exactly 100 years ago on this day in 1918, was one of the seminal events of the 20th century.