"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 ...

a Russian history professor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, has someone else in mind, as he explains in The New York Times: Putin himself is much more like another czar, Nicholas I, who ...

Richard Cobden, a leading supporter of the Peace Society, and John Bright, a Quaker and member of Parliament, both openly opposed war with Russia. These two politicians from Manchester are shown ...

He had devoted his life to serving his master - and, even in the face of certain death, that loyalty never wavered. Yet for 90 years, Briton Nicholas Johnson - murdered by Bolshevik ...

Tsar Nicholas II’s parting words to Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić on February 2, 1914, with a message for Serbia’s King Peter, foreshadowed the massive sacrifice Russia was about to ...

If Mirbach was authorized to sound out Nicholas on this important possibility, he must get the Tsar back to Moscow, or, better still, out of Russia. Sverdlov, already under the domination of ...

Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be ...

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

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 ...