Generally speaking, the Tsars of Russia didn't have the best track record when it came to assassination attempts. Ivan IV spent his short life behind prison and was stabbed by his own guards; Paul I ...

The tsar and the president / Marilyn P. Swezey -- Alexander II, tsar-liberator / Andrei D. Yanovskiy -- Accession to power and the coronation / Ludmila M. Kanaeva -- The tsar's special attribute / ...

In 1869, a young Russian artist and architect named Viktor Hartmann entered a design competition for an ornamental gate in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The gate was to commemorate a failed ...

Dmitry Romanov, a descendant of the tsar's family, pays his respects in 2008 at the tomb holding the remains of Nicholas II, Alexandra and their three daughters in St. Petersburg's St. Peter and Paul ...

The so-called Bomb Boys & Girls of Bolshevism, terroristic heroes of Russia’s Revolution, include not only active Bolsheviks like Josef Stalin but a host of passive old men & old women, safely ...