Love has shaped history in profound ways, inspiring art, war, political shifts, and cultural transformations. While some love ...
As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...
Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, allowing him to be dominated by his German-born wife, the Tsarina Alexandra, ...
The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...
Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.
South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.
For the last of these shows, he brings Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943) to life, and for the first time, shares the stage with actor Jonathan Silvestri as Tsar Nicholas II. Felder once more ...
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, rejects the argument that Russian imperialism was unsalvageable in the face of pressure from the modernising ...