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 ...

Then suddenly, near a stage set in front of Tbilisi’s Classical Gymnasium, the reporters dispersed, and I was left with a ...

Learn, among much else, that in tsarist Russia smokers had their lips ... of the Counts of Geneva – and the monumental Impérial Palace hotel, once host to George VI, Churchill and Chaplin.

So it was in Tsarist Russia. The war only postponed the struggle ... During late 1916, the mystic monk Rasputin was murdered and plots were laid for a ‘palace coup’ to remove the Tsar and the Tsarina.

Eventually an expanding Tsarist Empire and the British Empire in India accepted ... he was sent as a friend of the palace instead. Doing better than expected, he was to surprise his patrons in Riyadh ...

Nearly a third of New Zealanders tune into podcasts every week and many of them are hooked on history. The past may be a foreign country but it’s never been so popular as a destination.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the wall of a courtyard inside the royal palace in Kathmandu, a spray of bullet holes has drawn a crowd. Half a dozen divots run ...

Mr Lammy said: 'There is a Tsarist tradition that he's leaning into - Peter the Great, Nicholas I - the worst of that period, imperial in its ambitions. 'And there is a Soviet tradition.

Only rock-bottom Crystal Palace have won fewer points than Brighton in their last six outings. Still, Kirby has the quality and fortitude to cause her former employers problems this weekend.