Tsar Alexander III of Russia sparked a royal tradition that would become one of the most opulent and iconic legacies in the history of art. He commissioned famed jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé to create a ...

As Easter approaches, it reminds me of one of my favourite dreams: being asked to go through the boxes of a client’s attic to see if anything emerges that might be worth selling and coming across a ...

Writer, actor, and pianist Hershey Felder has several self-penned solo musical plays in his impressive body of work. His newest production, Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, is on its world premiere tour ...

SUMY OBLAST, Ukraine — Thousands of Ukrainian civilian volunteers recently ventured into Ukraine’s countryside in the dead of night loaded with World War II-era guns and pick-up trucks to go ...

Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...

Happy Monday, Illinois. It’s down to the wire for municipal elections — and that suburb we call Wisconsin. “I can just tell you that in history, not since Rasputin has there been someone who ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

With civil war ravaging the streets of St Petersburg in 1918, a 12-year-old girl raced against all odds to flee the city. Having found an escape route, she sewed a beloved pendant — a aquamarine of ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Nicholas Kristof is a New York Times columnist and has won two Pulitzer Prizes. His new memoir is “Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life.” If there are Martian scholars examining the ...