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 ...

who wielded undue influence over Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. But the conspiracy backfired, hastening the coming Russian Revolution Carolyn Harris; Updated by Sonja Anderson The Soviet ...

A senior Russian ... a protest by Russia’s largest Jewish group. Marina Molodtsova, a senior investigator for a special ministerial committee on the 1918 slaying of Nicholas II of Russia ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Living in religious societies that by and large feel victimized by communism or its effects, many Russian ... Nicholas II, the czar whose reign the revolution ended. Yet ahead of the centenary ...

Aristocrats plotted to kill the Siberian peasant, who wielded undue influence over Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. But the conspiracy backfired, hastening the coming Russian Revolution The ...