Rating: 10|Votes: 9
The Monastery of St. John the Forerunner in Mesa Potamos, Cyprus has published a series of high-quality video interviews with top Romanov historians in honor of the 100th anniversary of the martyrdom of the last Royal Family of Russia.
Rating: 8.4|Votes: 98
We present these rare photographs of the Royal Family dated between 1917 and 1915, from six family albums that were taken out of Russia by the Empress’s lady-in-waiting, Anna Vyrobova.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 31
The Tsar rises above the age-old lies, appearing before our contemporaries in his human greatness and martyric crown. The question is not in the restoration of the monarchy, but first in the awareness of our past and the improvement of the present.
Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Rating: 8.9|Votes: 11
On that date a hundred years ago, the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife the tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four retainers, were ushered into a basement in the city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of the morning, for an execution that would mark a turning point in history.
Alexander Khrulev
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 11
The author recalled the famine of 1839-1841, when no peasants from the neighboring village that belonged to another landowner went hungry. “Almost all the local lords of manors preferred to suffer privations and felt it their duty to provide for their own peasants."