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

Marco Polo (1254--1324) is likely the most famous merchant who ever lived. Even small children know his name, thanks to the ...

Czar Nicholas II, who abdicated the throne on March 2, 1917, and his family were executed by a firing squad in the basement of the Ipatyev House in Yekaterinburg overnight to July 17, 1918.

After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (another hotly debated subject—did he voluntarily abdicate or do it under pressure, and did he abdicate at all?), the restraint on total chaos was gone. A ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in 1918.Credit: Alamy/File Hasegawa paints a convincing portrait of Nicholas as not only uninterested but way out of his depth as regards ...

That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered Turkey ... Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an end with Nicholas IIÍs abdication in 1917. After the Bolshevik Party came ...

Tsar Nicholas II makes a public address on July 20 ... In the euphoric atmosphere following the abdication, a temporary or "provisional" authority stepped in to run the country.

This all changed in 1917 with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the overthrow of the Tsarist regime. In February 1917, the Imperial Porcelain Factory became the State Porcelain Factory.