As the ill-fated Russian dynasty enters the cultural conversation yet again, we take a deeper look at one of the facts The Crown gets right: the house where they were executed. Built in the 1880s as a ...

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 ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 poses some initial challenges for the general reader, for whom it's written. At 784 pages (including appendices, maps and illustrations), and covering ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On Friday, the Russians laid to rest their last czar, Nicholas II, and his family. The ceremony was supposed to be an act of contrition by a penitent nation for the brutal murders that the Bolsheviks ...

Today, we have endless text chains and group selfies to prove that we're close. Back in the 1600s, they had art—lots and lots of art. An installation view of the exhibition, with Nicholas I’s vast ...

One of Russia’s most intriguing mysteries has added yet another chapter. On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and ...

This month marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most notorious and shocking political-related killings of all time. That’s when Tsar Nicholas II of Russia – who abdicated after the Bolshevik ...

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The US concentrated its attack on Fordow, an enrichment plant built hundreds of feet underground. Aerial photos give important clues about what damage the “bunker-buster” bombs may have caused. Brian ...