In the space of just nine months in 1917 Russia underwent two revolutions ... to which I will not even respond." This is how Russian Emperor Nicholas II reacted to troubling news delivered ...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, was on his way to Russia to try to seize ... Bolsheviks for executing Czar Nicholas II, his family and their servants ...

April 16th has been a day marked by a diverse range of significant historical events that have shaped the world in profound ...

November 7 of this year marks 100 years since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia—the result of a series of events ... After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (another hotly debated subject—did he ...

The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for centuriesThe ... Alexander II, who was assassinated in what was called the first Russian Revolution. Nicholas was not a great strategist and even after his ...

Sverdlov, Volodarsky, and Uritsky, all active leaders, were assassinated in the early days of the Revolution. Lenin, the flaming torch that fired the Russian ... of Tsar Nicholas II and the ...

Russian state TV hails 'Putin the Emperor' in delusional diatribe after chilling speech ...

The events of 1917 changed the course of Russian ... Russia's two largest cities have endured almost unchanged through a century of revolution and the fall, rise, and fall of empire. Tsar Nicholas ...

In the latest in Dominic Alexander’s series on great revolutions, he looks at how Russia went from bloody imperialist war to ...

In 1894 Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia. Along with his German-born wife ... The civil service helped the Tsar run the Russian Empire, performing his will and maintaining his authority.

Grigori Rasputin was a mystic who was originally only a peasant, so how did he become entangled with the Emperor of Russia, ...