In 1908, Englishman Sydney Gibbes was appointed tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II, and over the next 10 years, he became deeply attached to the Imperial family?and they to him. Here, Frances Welch draws on a wealth of unpublished material to cast new light on the fabled Romanov ...
Mitochondrial DNA sequence heteroplasmy in the Grand Duke of Russia Georgij Romanov establishes the authenticity of the remains of Tsar Nicholas II In 1991, nine sets of skeletal remains were excavated from a mass grave near Yekaterinburg, Russia which were believed to include the Russian Tsar Nichol...
Cast of “Anastasia.” Photo courtesy of Children’s Playhouse of Maryland. “Anastasia: The Musical” is the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. The youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the entire family was brutally murdered by Bolshevik soldiers in the Russian Re...
Tsarevich Alexei, the son of Nicholas II, the Tsar of Russia, suffered poor health from hemophilia. Neither his parents nor any of his four sisters had hemophilia. What was Alexi's genotype and where his parent's genotypes? Which of t...
The bodies of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and three of their daughters were finally interred at Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg on 17 July 1998, eighty years after they were murdered. The bodies of Alexei and one of his sisters were at the time missing. On 23...
Criticism of Tsar Nicholas II, ArtículoThe human dopamine transporter (hDAT) contains a C-terminal type 2 PDZ (postsynaptic density 95/Discs large/zona occludens 1) domain-binding motif (LKV) known to interact with PDZ domain proteins such as PICK1 (protein interacting with C-kinase 1). ...
in 1834. He borrowed from many Russian tales and the poem became a popular favorite. It remained so through the ensuing years despite efforts to suppress it in the mid-nineteenth century. This, no doubt was precipitated by the fact that the Tsar in the poem is a cruel andincompetent ...
Much has been written about the execution of the exiledRussian royal familyin 1918. The former Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, along with their five children, suffered gruesome deaths. When the reviled Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate the throne in February 1917, he and his fa...
After World War II was over, the children of Nazis had many questions. Some didn't believe their parents had done such things and were ardent believers in Nazi policies. Others were horrified at what their parents did and did everything they could to not be like them....