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 ...

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 ...

Explore the life of Alexandra Feodorovna, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the Tsarina of Russia. This video delves ...

Living up to her reputation as the grandmother of Europe, Queen Victoria of England met with her granddaughter Tsarina Alexandra and Alexandra's husband, Tsar Nicholas II, after the couple welcomed ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Today is International Women’s Day. It also happens to be the 100th ...

Nicholas and Alexandra had loved each other for years, but it wasn't until 1894 that she agreed to convert to Orthodoxy, a requirement for the wife of the heir to the Russian throne. They were engaged ...

Alexandra Feodorovna (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November ...

The wife of Nicholas III, the tsar who was overthrown in 1917 by the Russian Revolution, Alexandra has long been viewed by Russian historians as narrow-minded, reactionary and hysterical. But in this ...

Nicholas and Alexandra had loved each other for years, but it wasn't until 1894 that she agreed to convert to Orthodoxy, a requirement for the wife of the heir to the Russian throne. They were engaged ...