When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It ...

In February the Russian monarchy collapsed. In October, squeezing out the moderate forces, the Bolsheviks seized power, leading to a bloody civil war. Subsequently, the Soviet government steered ...

who see themselves as strangling a political underground that presents the same risk to the Kremlin that the Bolsheviks posed before Russia’s monarchy was toppled in 1917, said Andrei Soldatov ...

The same crown, which was used for all subsequent Russian monarchs, has two hemispheres that symbolize the union of East and West. It is decorated with 4,936 Indian diamonds with a combined weight ...

Born in 1886 in the Ukrainian town of Gorodok, Lemlich grew up in a Jewish family that experienced the social upheaval and hardships defined by the declining Russian monarchy. Facing poverty and ...

Russian missiles killed at least 23 people in a second night of heavy strikes on Ukraine, a stark toll the Polish Prime Minister described as the result of appeasing “barbarians.” The attacks ...