As the ill-fated Russian dynasty enters the cultural conversation yet again, we take a deeper look at one of the facts The Crown gets right: the house where they were executed. Built in the 1880s as a ...

Ipatiev House takes the drama back to 1917 and the British Royal Family plunged into turmoil after their Russian relatives reached out seeking asylum amid the Russian Revolution. In perhaps the most ...

In 1977, a local Communist party official in the Ural Mountains city of Sverdlovsk got a message from Moscow ordering him to destroy a small mansion, called the Ipatiev house after the pre-Soviet ...

“The whole of ‘Ipatiev House,’ we never left the country, even though we did Russia and we did England a 100 years ago,” reveals “The Crown” production designer Martin Childs about the challenges of ...

The sixth episode of The Crown begins with scenes that are genuinely horrific. We witness the execution of the Romanovs in 1918. The Tsar and Tsarina, with their children, are taken from their beds ...

More than a century after their tragic demise, the Romanovs and everything about them—from their lost treasures to the enduring mysteries surrounding their deaths—still continue to inspire feverish ...