The earliest surviving portrait of King Richard III, dating from 1520 Researchers at the University of Leicester announced yesterday that...

While most consorts of deposed monarchs are blamed for their husbands’ political failings, Dona remained a popular figure despite the...

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna at home in Cooksville in 1959 In June, 1959, the widowed seventy-seven year old Mrs. Nikolai Kulikovsky...

The publication of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy will hopefully contribute to more balanced teaching of the...

The Laurentian Mountains, Charlevoix, Quebec When Duke Dimitri of Leuchtenberg, whose ancestors included Empress Josephine of France and...

King Louis XIV performing the role of Apollo in the 1663 Ballet de la Nuit. When the King stopped performing in middle age, he continued...

Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich Selects His Bride by Grigory Sedov Martin judges Sedov’s painting to be the most accurate representation of the...

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaeva, eldest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia in 1913. I am pleased to announce the publication of my...

Danish painter Laurits Tuxen's depiction of the wedding of Emperor Nicholas II and Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1894, two weeks...

Popular writers such as Virginia Rounding, author of Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power and Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of...

Since 1967, the lives of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Emperor and Empress of Russia, have been synonymous with Robert...