Héritier de la dynastie des Romanov, à la tête du puissant empire russe depuis plusieurs siècles, Nicolas II ne parvient pas à faire les réformes que lui imposait son époque ...

Both spectacular and pious, "Tsar" positions itself between Sergei Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" and Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev," though without their originality and inspiration. By The ...

On Ivan the Terrible’s last day, March 18th, 1584, English diplomat at the Russian court Sir Jerome Horsey saw the Tsar in his treasury. Surrounded by courtiers, he spoke about the qualities of the ...

Thousands of Russian religious pilgrims have walked in an overnight procession in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg to mark the 100th anniversary of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.

Living in your room until you were 16, learning books by heart and never EVER eating cabbage – these were just a few of the quirks of becoming a Russian tsar. Messengers are being sent to all Russian ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin, honoured like a Russian tsar at his swearing-in for a new six-year presidential term, had a double-edged message for the West: the Kremlin is ready to talk but ...

In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a bomb so powerful that its shock waves circled the globe three times. Nicknamed Tsar Bomba, it was 3,000 times stronger than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima ...

When picturing a tank, most people would include tracks, a relatively low profile, and a design that likely looks nothing like the strange Tsar Tank. First tested in 1915, the Tsar Tank was an ...

Tuesday, November 1, marks 128 years since Nicholas II became the Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, died in 1894. He was the last Tsar (defined as an emperor or ruler) of Russia after ...