Among them is the blood-stained shirt of Czar Alexander II of Russia (Alexander the Liberator) which he wore in the last hours of his life before his assassination on 13 March 1881. The ceremony ...

"There's a long-running idea in mystical Russian theology that Russia is holding back the Antichrist and is doing that specifically through the prayers of the departed Czar Nicholas II," Riccardi ...

Yet for 90 years, Briton Nicholas Johnson - murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia - was officially ... younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution ...

(JTA) – A Russian Justice Ministry official repeated a local bishop’s claim that Jews murdered the last czar for ritual purposes ... 1918 slaying of Nicholas II of Russia, said Monday at ...

This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...

Although neither man could know it at the time, Tsar Nicholas II ... Russia was about to make on behalf of her Slavic cousins exactly six months later. Pašić and Serbia’s Crown Prince ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday unveiling a monument to the tsar in the Crimean city of Yalta. Putin called Alexander III a prominent politician and patriot who bore personal ...