"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 ...

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

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 ...

Putting up a monument to Czar Nicholas II would mark Montenegro’s permanent gratitude to Russia as the centuries-old benefactor BELGRADE, May 3. /TASS/. Serb National Council (SNC) that unites ...

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 ...

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

The blood-stained shirt of Czar Alexander II was brought to France ... relics were handed over to the St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in Nice. After the Russian Revolution, the Russian Cultural ...

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The Russian Empire at the turn of the century was huge. The United States could be dropped into it and still leave room for China and India. That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that ...

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 ...