Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age ... the executioners were tired and probably hurried. They sat down at last beneath the pine trees to eat their lunch, letting fall the telltale eggshells.

(2/2) We join the captive Romanovs as they are moved from The Alexander Palace to Siberia and then to Ekaterinburg, where their dreadful murder awaits them. It's a story that still has the power to ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

The New York Islanders have turned a corner on the season with great defense leading the way. They’ve allowed only seven ...

I doubt it: Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Romanovs, with its range of anecdotes ... Keith Neilsen’s Britain and the Last Tsar (1996), argued unconvincingly that in 1914 Britain should have ...