A Russian author has sensationally claimed Grand Duchess Anastasia - the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II - may have survived and successfully managed to escape to the West. According to ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth, a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of England and elder sister of Empress Alexandra of Russia (see July 4), was one of the most illustrious women of her day, known throughout ...

In 1884 Elizabeth married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. Elizabeth found Orthodoxy increasingly ... Modern Martyrs of the 20th century Grand Duchess ...