Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich (center) with Emperor Nicholas II (to the left from the Gran Duke) Archive photo Indeed, he was firmly against democratic reforms.

Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich of Russia, shot in Perm in 1918. Getty Images While the Bolsheviks shot Nicholas II and his family in 1918, other members of the House of Romanov were also executed.

On 2 March 1917 Emperor Nicholas II abdicated in favor of his brother Mikhail, saying, "We bequeath Our inheritance to Our brother the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich and give him Our Blessing on ...

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich. ... Daughter of Prince Andrei Alexandrovich, Nicholas II's oldest nephew. She lives in Kent, England, and organizes the annual Russian Debutante Ball in London.

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 DUKE WEDS DIVORCED PRINCESS; Nicholas Nicholaievitch, the Czar's Cousin, Marries Anastasia of Montenegro. GAVE UP PERILOUS POST Commanded In St. Petersburg and Narrowly Escaped Assassination ...

This month marks the sesquicentennial of the Carnival-time visit of Russian Grand Duke Alexei (Alexis) Alexandrovich Romanov, an event well-remembered locally for its association with the ...

More than 30 participants, such as Moscow and regional museums, monasteries of the Holy Land, archives, private collectors, have provided about 400 exhibits for the exhibition. On display there are ...

In Moscow there are copies of artifacts destroyed by IS that were made at the time of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. Moscow, March 12, 2015. On Thursday last week it was reported that IS militants ...

The days of February 11th and 13th in the year 1903 were special in St. Petersburg. If, in the words of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, someone were to peer through the large windows of the palace ...

Moscow: Russia will exhume the remains of Tsar Alexander III as part of a probe into the century-old murder of his son, the country's last emperor Nicholas II, and his family, investigators said ...