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 ...

Russia went to war in 1914 — and it destroyed the monarchy. Soldiers had no rifles, cities had no bread, and Tsar Nicholas II ...

At that decadent court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, another and a towering Nicholas always strode with head erect. Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the ...

The premise of the season’s sixth episode, “Ipatiev House,” begins with the execution of Russia’s Tsar Nicholas and his family and it’s probably the most blood-soaked episode of The Crown we’ve ever ...

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 ...