Was it a series of bad decisions that brought down the Romanovs?
Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...
‘Bronshtein in the Bronx’ Review: A Tall Trotsky Tale
The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...
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Was it a series of bad decisions that brought down the Romanovs?
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 ...
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Hershey Felder Will Bring RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR to South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.
Everything can happen again: 77% of Russians do not know when and whom the Bolsheviks overthrew
On January 15, VTsIOM published its assessment of Russians' knowledge of history — the results turned out to be contradictory ...
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St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Cathedrale Orthodoxe Russe St. Nicolas)
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 ...
On This Day: Manchester United players among 23 dead in Munich plane crash
On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...