Crown Prince's spaniel saw the Romanov family gunned to death before his epic escape.
Special train - the Eurasian Star - will reopen exotic and historic trail linking China, Mogolia and Russia.
Scientists close to precise dating of the Shigir Idol, twice as ancient as the Egyptian Pyramids.
Tuesday is Christmas Day across Russia, so we wish you Merry Christmas from Siberia.
Wooden statue 5.3m high with eight faces gazed over the water for only two decades, but leaves us with a conundrum 11,600 years later.
Culture on edge of Siberia was 'as advanced' as in Middle East, then considered to be the apex of development.
A future international tourist bonanza is being brewed on the historic Great Tea Road.
Dating back 11,000 years - with a coded message left by ancient man from the Mesolithic Age - the Shigir Idol is almost three times as old as the Egyptian pyramids.
He describes a mission to Moscow as the Soviet Union was imploding when he was given access to a document the authorities had earlier claimed did not exist
Tsar's daughter may, after all, have escaped the execution which wiped out the royal family, says new book.