FOR eight years I had been professor of French to the four Grand Duchesses, daughters of the Tsar Nicholas II, when, in the autumn of 1913, I was appointed tutor to the Grand Duke Alexis Nikolaievich, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spirit of Ecstasy Fabergé Egg. Figurine hand-sculpted in frosted rock crystal. Rose gold vanes, embellished with nearly 10 carats of round white diamonds, resolve into swathes of natural amethyst ...