By Ben Aris in Berlin An ancient story of investors trying to recover billions of dollars of debt Russia defaulted on after ...

“What will happen to me and all of Russia? I’m not prepared to be a Czar, I never wanted to become one, I know nothing of the business of ruling. I don’t know how to carry out the duties.” (Nicholas ...

Though vested with absolute power, Tsar Nicholas II faced mounting unrest driven by poverty, harsh industrial conditions, and political repression. This video explores how mass discontent and the ...

The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...

At that decadent court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, another and a towering Nicholas always strode with head erect. Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the ...

TYUMEN, August 4 (Itar-Tass) – An expedition of history connoisseurs and professional historians starts off from Tyumen on Saturday to repeat the route traversed 95 years ago by the family of the ...