"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 ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced ... any stain of guilt on official records. The Russian government declared Johnson, Michael and ...

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...

Book Review: A colourful and compelling portrait of Russia’s last tsar The Japanese author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa successfully argues that, far from being inevitable, the blame for the fall of Nicholas II ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family ... also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing Russian population. The church's onion domes, bright colors and detailed ...

South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in ... in 1914 Britain should have been less worked up about Germany than Russia’s long-term threat to its supreme ranking among the Great ...