"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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, July 17. /TASS/. Twelve members of the Romanov House have come to St. Petersburg to pay homage to last Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family members marking 100 years since the ...

Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...