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Russia’s Last Czar to Be Sainted By Andrei Zolotov in Moscow Nicholas II and family part of 1,100 canonized for martyrdom by communists. Christianity Today August 16, 2000 ...
As scattered details of the apparent suicide of Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoit trickled in via state ...
Boris Yefimov, 100, saw the last czar, the birth and death of the Soviet Union, and voted for Putin. The political cartoonist, who survived civil war and Stalin, watched many others perish.
In the history-steeped halls of the Kremlin, where Czars were crowned, the 1,378 comrade Deputies of the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. assembled amid all the panoply and portent of ...
In The Last Tsar, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a distinguished academic historian of the Russian revolutionary era, has written a meticulously researched and detailed account of the downfall of this ...
Putin’s regime is teetering on collapse. He naïvely invited self-comparisons to Russia’s last czar, humiliating himself in the process, by referring to 1917 and the First World War.
Minister of Transport Roman Starovoy likely killed himself hours after being fired by President Vladimir Putin.
MOSCOW -- Prosecutors announced yesterday that they have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago, after an archaeologist reported that ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian’s transport minister was found dead from a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, investigators said ...
PETROGRAD, via LONDON, March 16, 1917 (UP) -- Democracy controls Russia. Czar Nicholas has abdicated. The Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch will act as regent until the czarevitch, 13 is of age ...
MOSCOW - Thousands of people crowded into a Moscow cathedral Sunday to watch as white-robed clerics officially canonized Russia's last czar, his family and hundreds of other victims of Soviet ...
Despite his tight grip on power, Putin has still served less time as head of state as the ill-fated last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II.