Wall Street Journal27d
‘The Last Tsar’ Review: The Romanovs Reconsidered
In the view of many historians, the czar’s decision to mobilize Russia’s troops in July 1914, and to enter World War I in alliance with France and Britain, was the last straw, a fatal move ...
Smithsonian Magazine22d
Ivan the Terrible, the Czar and Grand Prince of Russia, Wouldn’t Earn His Violent Nickname Until Years After His Reign
The painting shows the last minutes of one of the aristocratic elite taken out by Ivan IV. Wikimedia Commons Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of ...
TASS6y
Romanov murders: Poll reveals near 60% of Russians see Czar’s family homicide as atrocity
MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in 1918 had no justification, describing it as a monstrous crime rather than ...