Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared unlawful by presidential order. Tsar Alexander II (1855-81) shared with his father, Nicholas I, a conviction that American slavery was ...
From the late 19th century through to the outbreak of World War One in 1914, a series of threats to the Tsar's authority developed ... Grand Duke Sergei, Nicholas II’s uncle, was assassinated ...
In its École de Paris auction, MacDougall’s is offering five outstanding works by Nicholas Roerich from an important US collection, all of which are being offered for sale for the first time.
Mineral, saline and subtly smoky, they’ve graced the cellars of Thomas Jefferson and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The next day, as Inês and I struck out onto the coast-hugging route from Santana to ...