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The Czar, Anastasia and a resolved mystery

Ninety years after he was executed, Czar Nicholas II is leading a tight race to be named the greatest Russian in history.<br/>His closest competitors? Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state that killed the last czar and his entire family.<br/>The contest, sponsored by state-owned Rossiya television, is a Russian version of the 2002 BBC show "Great Britons," which was won by Winston Churchill. Above, the czar and son Alexei at a prison camp.

Ninety years after he was executed, Czar Nicholas II is leading a tight race to be named the greatest Russian in history.His closest competitors? Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state that killed the last czar and his entire family.The contest, sponsored by state-owned Rossiya television, is a Russian version of the 2002 BBC show "Great Britons," which was won by Winston Churchill. Above, the czar and son Alexei at a prison camp. AP Photo/Alastair Grant