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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin could barely hide his delight when Myanmar's brutal military junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing described him as the 'King of Russia' - and thanked him for his gift of six elephants ...

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 ...