"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." For the Romanov family at the Ipatiev House, Tuesday July 16 in Ekaterinburg was much like any other ...

Season five of "The Crown" depicts in horrifying detail the deaths of the Russian royal family. The Romanovs were executed in 1918 after Bolshevik revolutionaries toppled the monarchy. Here's what the ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and ...

Fabergé is believed to have produced 50 of the ornate eggs for Russia’s czars. The Winter Egg, sold on Tuesday, is considered one of the jewelry house’s greatest creations. By Jin Yu Young The last ...

Did you watch the 1997 classic “Anastasia” as a kid? We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the Romanov family in the movie – showed up in your nightmares. Or maybe you ...

Most often, theatre happens. Audiences take their seats, and the house lights go dark. A curtain may rise, or actors take the stage and tell a story. We watch as the story unfolds. But there are those ...

Unlike most of The Crown’s fifth season, episode six does not take place in the 1990s. Instead, it opens in World War I–era Britain, when the House of Windsor was headed not by Queen Elizabeth but by ...

Episode six of the latest season of "The Crown" opens with a different royal family than the one viewers have grown accustomed to seeing over the past five seasons. In a flashback to the early 20th ...

In “Rasputin,” the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina’s mystic adviser. By Sophie Pinkham Fabergé is believed to have produced 50 of the ornate eggs for ...