On July 17, 1918, the House of Romanov came to an end when Nicholas II - the former tsar of imperial Russia - was gunned down alongside his wife and children in a surprise execution. The slaying of ...
From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was Eugenia Drabrek Smetisko, commonly known as Eugenia Smith, but if you had ...