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

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.

On July 17, 1918, the House of Romanov came to an end when Nicholas II - the former tsar of imperial Russia - was gunned down alongside his wife and children in a surprise execution. The slaying of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congressionally Chartered. Scholarship Driven. Fiercely Nonpartisan.

Jonathan Silvestri is Tsar Nicholas II and Hershey Felder is Sergei Rachmaninoff ... his involvement with the Russian nobility, to his emigration from revolutionary Russia to America, Felder ...

He gradually gained fame and established connections with the Russian royal family and orthodox priests. Later, he was introduced to Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna.

Jonathan Silvestri in the role of Tsar Nicholas II. Felder paints a portrait of the famous composer at the very end of his life, decades after he’s left his native Russia, as he lies in bed in ...

The Tsar was too much occupied ... defense of Sevastopol, Russia was finally conquered. Nicholas died from chagrin, — or “medicine,” — and Alexander II. came to the throne, announcing ...

O n a Wednesday morning in October 2014, in a garage in the woods of Pennsylvania, Tommy Trotta tried on some new jewelry: a ...