Geneticists confirm curl from museum's collection belongs to Tsarevich Alexey Romanov PARIS, November 10. /TASS/. Relics from the Russian Imperial Romanov family, illegally seized by a religious ...

On February February 19, 1861 Czar Alexander II emancipated Russia’s serfs. Historian John Schmidt explains how it happened. PHOTO: Czar Alexander II of Russia (Wikimedia Commons) ...

In 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel. In 1868, the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate began impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Andrew Johnson, a ...

This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...

When Tsar Alexander II of Russia ascended to the throne in 1855, he brought with him the romantic sensibility of his liberal education. His passion for decadent luxury and the finer things in life ...