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MOSCOW, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Russian investigators say they've confirmed the purported remains of Czar Nicholas II and his family, buried in a St. Petersburg cathedral, are authentic.
MOSCOW, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A criminal investigation into the 1918 execution of the Russian royal family by Bolsheviks has been closed, a lawyer for the family says.
YEKATERINBURG , Russia, March 11 (UPI) -- Human remains found outside the Russian city of Yekaterinburg belonged to the two missing children of slain Russian czar Nikolai Romanov, DNA tests show.
MOSCOW, July 17 (UPI) -- People across Russia Thursday commemorated the 90th anniversary of the assassination of Czar Nicholas II and his family.
MOSCOW, July 15 (UPI) -- Josef Stalin and Czar Nicholas II are running neck-and-neck in an online Russian poll to determine the country's most significant historical figure.
MOSCOW, June 24 (UPI) -- Bones found near the execution site of the Romanov family appear likely to be those of the heir to the Russian throne and his sister, authorities said Tuesday.
MUNICH, Germany, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Russia's next president likes heavy metal rock and the Orthodox Church and looks like the last Czar Nicholas. Welcome to the new old Russia.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The mystery of what occurred to Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family nearly nine decades ago may have been solved by amateur investigators.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- I don't think it possible for any historian to visit the Baltic countries or the rest of Central Europe and not reflect on the catastrophes World War I brought for that part of the world. Communism, World War II, National Socialism, the extinction of some communities and the expulsion of others, wholesale alteration of national boundaries, all these and more flowed from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. One pebble touched off an avalanche.
MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has reopened a criminal investigation into the execution almost 90 years ago of Czar Nicholas II and his family.
