VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis came under criticism on Monday for telling Russian youths to remember that they are the heirs of past tsars such as Peter the Great, who President Vladimir Putin ...

The Decembrist revolt on December 14, 1825 saw army officers and intellectuals in favor of liberal reforms attempt to seize power after the sudden death of Tsar Alexander I, only to be crushed by the ...

“Winter Egg” is introduced by Christie's as “the most spectacular, artistically creative and distinctive” product in a set of ...

VATICAN CITY, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Pope Francis did not intend to glorify Russian imperialism when he extolled tsars that expanded the Russian empire, the Vatican said on Tuesday, after remarks last ...

BERLIN — Even geopolitical ideas have their own history. One of the great misunderstandings is to treat geopolitics as nothing more than a mix of geography and a hunger for power — both somehow ...

Organised by the ill-fated Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, it was remembered as the last great ball in Russian imperial history, a fancy dress spectacular at the Winter Palace in St ...

* Tsar's family ask Russia to reopen criminal case * Tsar Nicholas II was murdered with his family in 1918 By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The self-proclaimed heir to Russia's imperial ...

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's close aide says Russian President Vladimir Putin is "living in fear for his life" amid severe setbacks in the Ukraine war. What Happened: "[Putin] is very ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and his rumored girlfriend and retired rythmic gymnast Alina Kabaeva (right).Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images Putin has several young children with his rumored ...

It had the makings of a military thriller. In November, Ukrainian operatives carried out closely sequenced attacks on critical sections of the Baikal-Amur Railway, which runs through eastern Russia ...

At that decadent court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, another and a towering Nicholas always strode with head erect. Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the ...