When Russia fights the wrong enemy
The war has cost Russia more than 700,000 casualties. It has forced Russia to reorient its lucrative European energy trade to ...
This man destroyed world’s most powerful empire, was a priest, didn’t die by bullet and poison, predicted death, his name was…
Prince Felix Yusupov killed Rasputin on December 30, 1916. Yusupov hatched a conspiracy to assassinate Rasputin after ...
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UC Santa Barbara Historian Writes Definitive Account of Tsar Nicholas II’s Abdication
But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...
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Russian Revolution: The tutor who witnessed the downfall of the Romanovs
By 1908, seven years after arriving in Russia as a 25-year-old, he was tutor to the five children of Tsar Nicholas II. He would stay with the family even after the tsar was overthrown and the ...
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The ballerina and the visit of Nicholas II to Ceylon
Dr. Tony Donaldson revisits a forgotten episode in Sri Lanka’s history when Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, spent 12 unforgettable days in Ceylon The final years of Tsarist Russia were ...
A view of 19-century Bombay and its Parsis through the eyes of a Russian poet
On a trip to India with Nicholas II, Esper Ukhtomsky expressed disdain for British colonialism and how anglicised the elite ...
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Nicholas and Alexandra - Full Cast & Crew
The tragic story of Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife ...
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St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Cathedrale Orthodoxe Russe St. Nicolas)
Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family ... also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing Russian population. The church's onion domes, bright colors and detailed ...