protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of the Russian monarchy.

Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...

In 1894 Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia. Along with his German-born wife ... behaviour and destroy subversive groups: The Tsarist army was an important part of the autocracy. The senior officers ...