Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly ...

Writers Theatre has revealed its 2025/26 season. The five-play season is marked by four productions never seen before in ...

This pseudo-cleric averred that he could control the child’s illness. In fact, he did seem to have some marginal soothing ...

When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It ...

An exquisite work of art in the form of a rare Fabergé cigarette case, has been gifted to The Wildlife Trusts as part of a ...

Without the help of the Russian tsar, the new Habsburg Emperor, Francz Joseph, would have been unable to crush the 15 March ...

In 1917, when Russia was on the verge of revolution, 100,000 women marched down the streets of the Russian capital Petrograd, ...

The regal tradition of scratching signatures in windowpanes is long established and well known. The windows – particularly when in rooms of royal residences – formed a kind of living ‘guestbook’, ...

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

He wanted Russia to go backward, to the pre-Soviet era when Imperial Russia was ruled by a tsar with the blessing of the Russian ... of being supremely hated figures in Kyiv. A "nice family," is how ...

At one point, the Russian president even stayed at his American counterpart's family home ... even comparing himself to Peter the Great, a tsar who annexed swathes of new land for Russia centuries ...