In 1887 his older brother, Alexander, was hanged in St. Petersburg ... an Art Nouveau villa given by Czar Nicholas II to his ballet-star mistress and seized by Bolsheviks in March 1917.

That Russian Revival church was built on the site where anarchists assassinated Czar Alexander II in 1881. Viunov, a husky, bearded man in his mid-40s, trained as a sculptor at the city’s ...

But the war also changed Russia itself far more than most outsiders grasp. No cease-fire, not even one brokered by a U.S.

Aleksei B. Smirnov, together with his deputy and other accomplices, was accused of embezzling money earmarked for building ...