With construction starting in 1981, tens of thousands of workers spent years building the world's longest single rail system ...

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced ... any stain of guilt on official records. The Russian government declared Johnson, Michael and ...

Tsar Nicholas II’s parting words to Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić on February 2, 1914, with a message for Serbia’s King Peter, foreshadowed the massive sacrifice Russia was about to ...

On January 15, VTsIOM published its assessment of Russians' knowledge of history — the results turned out to be contradictory ...

More than a century after the Russian Revolution, the downfall of the Romanov dynasty continues to fascinate and enthrall. The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years ...

The Russian Empire at the turn of the century was huge. The United States could be dropped into it and still leave room for China and India. That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that ...

a movie describing the love story of last Russian emperor Nicholas II and a ballet dancer MOSCOW, September 12. /TASS/. Two leading Russian cinema networks, Formula Kino and Cinema Park ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, rejects the argument that Russian imperialism was unsalvageable in the face of pressure from the modernising ...