Instead, they are fated to endure their status from birth to death ... of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia, and there is ...

The Battle of Adrianople during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829 played a crucial yet overlooked role in Greece's fight for ...

In 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their children—Olga ... who insisted that she was Anastasia for decades even until her death in 1984. A postmortem DNA test was conducted on her hair ...

April is poetry month, so we’ll be sprinkling a few poems here and there for patrons to enjoy. These books, and many poetry ...

In the latest in Dominic Alexander’s series on great revolutions, he looks at how Russia went from bloody imperialist war to ...

“The Last Tzar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs” by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa uses newly discovered documentation to show that the people closest to the Tsar were ready for ...

ECF No. 150-4 at 1-2.11 That day, Mayor Adams met with the administration's “border czar"; the following day ... 19 (Madeleine J. Wilken & Nicholas Triffin eds., 1991). A later memorandum ...

Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...

Another cause of death was asphyxiation by carbon dioxide poisoning ... resulting in a fire where 150 people lost their lives. Tsar Nicholas II’s 1914 prohibition, often cited as one of the catalysts ...

Upon the death of Nicholas I, Alexander II became Tsar, who by comparison was liberal in his views and approach. A wave of reforms followed with the momentous decision to abolish serfdom and address ...