ON THE evening of November 7 1917 a small group of frightened men — ministers of Russia’s Provisional Government — waited in the imperial throne room of the Winter Palace ... mainly by remnants of the ...

This plate was made in 1913 under the Tsarist regime, but remained blank ... Livadia was the name of the palace in the Crimea for which the plate was originally bound. Most propaganda plates ...

There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could be challenged. This vast, diverse Empire was ruled by a series of Tsars. They ran the country as autocrats. This meant ...