Briton Nicholas Johnson - murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia - was officially branded an 'enemy of the people'. As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar ... Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613). The last tsar of the previous dynasty, a weak son of Ivan the Terrible, died in 1589.

TASS/. Emperor Alexander III who went down in history as a man of peace, advocated for peace for Russia not through concessions, but with fortitude and steadfastness, Russian President Vladimir ...

Ahead of the World Cup I've been podcasting my way through the often baffling, frequently disquieting, but always fascinating world of Russian history and culture - all the way from A to Tsar.