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Tsar Nicholas II Trusted Rasputin Topical Press Agency/Getty Images Tsar Nicholas II and his family were the last royal family of Russia before the age of communism. They all met their end by ...

PITTSFIELD — With his newest music-theater piece, “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” 56-year-old pianist-actor-playwright Hershey Felder takes a twist on a formula that has served him extremely well in a ...

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The Louvre Museum recently acquired a 19th century triptych created by the House of Fabergé and presented as a gift to Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra for the birth of their first ...

All the details on every single one of the royal family's tiaras including favourite styles worn by Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana and Catherine, Princess of Wales.

Tsar Nicholas I brutally suppressed the revolt, inaugurating an era of reactionary rule marked by censorship, secret police, and repression. The Age of Reform and Industrialization The mid-19th ...

In 1917, Russia experienced not one but two revolutions that would reshape the world. This video explores the fall of Tsar Nicholas II in the February Revolution, and the rise of Lenin and the ...

In a departure from Felder’s typical (solo) pieces, Rachmaninoff also features Jonathan Silvestri as Tsar Nicholas II. As Rachmaninoff transitions into death, he seeks to settle his most festering ...