Showing posts with label Romanovs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romanovs. Show all posts

Monday, June 05, 2023

The Last Christmas of the Romanovs

Dec 30, 2020 | Christmas 1917 would be the last for the Romanov family. Isolated from the world, exiled in Siberia, they lived the joy of the feast of love, distributing gifts to the members of their staff that they had made themselves. Under house arrest and closely guarded, they were able to organize a traditional Christmas that was in many ways their closest family holiday.

Sunday, June 04, 2023

The Last Days of the Romanovs | National Geographic

Jul 8, 2018 | For 300 years the Romanovs ruled Russia as tsars. But as World War I brought Russia to revolution, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were overthrown. During his World Cup tour of Russia, National Geographic reporter Sergey Gordeev visits the Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg that memorializes the location of their demise.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Putin's Russia and the Ghost of the Romanovs | The Economist

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, the Romanovs, were murdered 100 years ago today by Marxist revolutionaries. What does this anniversary mean for Vladmir Putin?

Russia's Lost Princesses – Documentary

Part 1 : The Gilded Cage; 2: The World Turned Upside Down


Monday, September 02, 2013

Hidden Portrait of 'Last Tsarevich' Discovered in Attic


A painting has been discovered of the last crown prince of the Russian Empire, Alexey Romanov.

Watch the RT video here

Tuesday, June 25, 2013


Nicholas II: Russia's Last Emperor

To this day, Russians have differing opinions on the country's last tsar, Nicholas II, who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Some call him a model statesman and even a martyr - while others dismiss him as a faceless politician who ruined his country.

He's referred to as both Nicholas the Slaughterer and the Tsar-Martyr. So what was the real story behind the last emperor?