Heart-wrenching but inspiring story of romance emerges as 96 year old Japanese ex-PoW pens emotional last letter to his dead Russian wife.
Tsar's daughter may, after all, have escaped the execution which wiped out the royal family, says new book.
He confessed that he and a friend cannibalised another member of their group who died in the extreme cold, say investigators.
Yana Tamocheva became lost while picking berries with her mother in Krasnoyarsk region.
One of the giants of science in the Soviet and post-USSR eras, a former president of the Academy of Sciences, died aged 87 after a long illness.
For quarter of a century he waited for police to come for him, convinced - wrongly - he had murdered girlfriend and her daughter in knife attack.
Maru was sent back to the kennels where she was born on Trans-Siberian railway by 'allergic' owner, but escaped the train.
It is as great a nightmare as any parent can face: you love the daughter you have raised, but you suddenly discover she is not yours.