On one hand, personalism, with a tsar (later emperor) involved in almost every ... "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire," he explains. "He is not going to talk about ...

For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply because they were born in the right family. What’s more, the empire started through ...

In a word, visualize the component human elements of the far-flung empire of the ... and the Emperor Paul! Peter the Great—who first started the Russian State on the wrong path, the typical ...

They ascended the throne at the end of one of the most critical periods of Russian history ... until Peter the Great took the title of emperor and declared that his wife Catherine I would succeed ...

Russian Emperor reigns supreme in Gold Cup as Golden Sixty again disappoints “What I was told from the owners, they were never going to move but you never say never in this game. It was just a ...

French President Emmanuel Macron branded his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin an "imperialist" who was trying to "rewrite ...

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...

Russian Emperor is on track for his intended return in the Group One Stewards’ Cup (1,600m) on January 21 after pleasing Hugh Bowman in a barrier trial at Sha Tin on Tuesday morning. Reuniting ...

the Russian Empire’s prime minister from 1906-1911, buried on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra as "dancing" on his grave. "This is not the first time the Ukrainian neo-Nazis have tried ...