When Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov married Victoria Bettarini in St. Petersburg on Oct. 1, their lavish nuptials marked a rather epic return to the world stage for the Romanov family, whose ...

In popular lore, the impression that most likely comes to mind regarding the Romanovs is one of failure: a dynasty that came crashing down in the maelstrom of war and revolution in the early 20th ...

Lucy Worsley concludes her history of the Romanov dynasty, investigating how the family's grip on Russia unraveled in their final century. She shows how the years 1825-1918 were bloody and traumatic, ...

The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg. By Ivan Nechepurenko For the groom, a Romanov and descendant of the imperial throne, and ...

The Romanovs celebrated their dynasty's tricentennial in 1913 - just five years before communists gunned down Nicholas II and his family in the basement of a house in Yekaterinburg. Under Romanov rule ...

A descendant of Russia’s imperial Romanov dynasty married his Italian bride Friday in the country’s first royal wedding in more than a century. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov tied the knot ...

Russia’s Investigative Committee is taking another look at the 1918 murders of the Romanov royal family in the hope that new genetic testing can finally confirm the identity of remains thought to ...

COPENHAGEN, January 11. /TASS/. Prince Dimitri Romanov, the oldest relative of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, was laid to rest at the Vedbaek cemetery 20 km north of the Danish capital on ...

Maryland auctioneers Alexander Historical Auctions, known internationally for their sale of historic letters and documents, will offer at auction on Aug. 16 a pair of Russian Romanov Family treasures ...

Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived an inept king and a scorned queen (versions vary; in some she may be wicked, insane, abominable, all of the above). They needed an heir, but ...

The Sept. 28 Book World review of "Secret Lives of the Tsars" purported to discuss "Romanov Russia," but it is worth pointing out that Catherine the Great was not a Romanov by birth. She was born in ...

A suspected secret agent smuggled the tiara from Russia to London.