Award-winning director Janusz Zaorski says members of his family were sent into exile in the east of Russia during the war years.

The aim? To put in place a Moscow government 'friendly' to Washington, and to protect US interests and citizens.

Now aged 71, Ted Kohner, son of Chaliapin's daughter Tatiana, is making his first visit from the US to the motherland of his iconic opera singer grandfather.

An astonishing story of the power of family bonds has seen Galina hold an emotional meeting with her siblings who last saw her as a tiny baby in 1945.

A century after their were slain, new hopes of finding the remains of missing royal, who ‘rejected’ his brother Nikolai II’s throne.

Heart-wrenching but inspiring story of romance emerges as 96 year old Japanese ex-PoW pens emotional last letter to his dead Russian wife. 

Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.

The city of Chelyabinsk cleared up its broken glass and divers scoured a lake to find a meteorite which hit with the force of a nuclear bomb.