Writer/Performer Hershey Felder Toplines New Ensemble Theatre Production in Santa Barbara ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of ...

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

Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...

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

This is how Russian Emperor Nicholas II reacted to troubling news delivered by Chairman of the State Duma Mikhail Rodzianko, who on Feb. 26, according to the Old Style calendar (March 11 ...

Smith was not, in fact, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who historians believe to have been executed via firing squad along with the rest of the Russian Imperial Romanov family during ...

Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...

The events of 1917 changed the course of Russian, and indeed world, history. But as these remarkable then-and-now pictures show, pockets of Russia's two largest cities have endured almost ...

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...