"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 ...

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

Nicholas II’s killers were “obviously ... a chief rabbi of Russia. But the blaming of Jews for the czar’s death is “an absolutely anti-Semitic myth used in anti-Semitic propaganda for ...

he has lost the allegiance of thousands of Russian emigres who are satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to ...

It has forced Russia to reorient its lucrative European energy trade to less profitable markets. Like Czar Nicholas II, Russian President Vladimir Putin has misidentified his primary foe.

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All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a ...

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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 ...

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 ...