A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 8, 1917, protests against food ...

Today is the 94th anniversary of the murders of Tsar Nicholas, the last monarch of Russia, and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks. I had never thought much about this crime, nor of the ...

Thousands of their ancestors were expelled to the fringes of the Russian Empire almost two centuries ago for rejecting the ...

Portrait of Czar Nicholas I in The Illustrated London News. This formal portrait provides a sharp contrast to the way Czar Nicholas I was depicted in the satirical press. Richard Cobden, a leading ...

The high point of the performance was a scene showing the astute Tsar Nicholas I cajoling the revolutionary poet Releyef into betraying his associates in conspiracy. Wrote the dramatic critic of ...

Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander ...

John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on March 2, 1855, his son, Alexander II, succeeded him on the throne. Here Alexander is shown inheriting the war started by his ...