Arian was presenting his views with great vigor and detail. As Saint Nicholas observed the scene, the emperor listened in complete silence and without interrupting this discourse. Outraged ...

Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age, late Tsar of All the Russias ... forces pouring into the trenches and massing before Saint-Mihiel, the German High Staff prepared for that supreme drive ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

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 ...

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 ...

Writing in the 1930s, Princess Catherine Radziwill, a member of an old noble Russian family, claims the Tsar sent Nicholas to Asia to break up his relationship with his mistress, Mathilde Kschessinska ...

This is how Russian Emperor Nicholas II reacted to troubling news ... according to the New Style), wrote that the situation in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) was critical: The capital was seized ...

Although neither man could know it at the time, Tsar Nicholas II’s parting words to ... Pašić and Serbia’s Crown Prince Alexander had come to St. Petersburg to discuss foreign policy ...

That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered ... for a royal burial in 1998 in the Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersburg. The relationship of Nicholas II and Alexandra, their ...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, rejects the argument that Russian imperialism was unsalvageable in the face of pressure from the modernising ...