Czar Nicholas II had mobilized about 12 million men; casualties — dead, wounded and missing — finally topped 50 percent. The soldiers, illiterate but sturdy peasants, ...

In total, at least 18 members of the royal house, including Paley’s cousins, the deposed czar Nicholas II and his daughter Anastasia, met violent ends during the conflict.

Nicholas Smedley has stepped down from a prestigious role at The Australian Club after his history of domestic violence was reported by The Age last month, causing ructions within the exclusive club.

His newest piece, however, “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar," which played the Colonial Theatre over the weekend, is a two-actor affair featuring Felder as Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and Jonathan ...

Notably, such a bridge had been planned for more than a century, with the first plan dating back to the reign of Tsar Nicholas II. Those plans were completed in 1910 but put on hold due to the ...