The Russian Tsars, or at least their Spirits, are conquering the American market with a rare Ultra-Premium Vodka, 500 years in the making, meant for royal palates. Russia is among the countries ...

The first tsar to use these regalia was Feodor I of Russia (1557-1598), son of Ivan the Terrible, and the last one was Nicholas II on April 27th, 1906, although, on this occasion, the Emperor didn ...

Among Russia’s nationalists, including Putin, Nicholas I is a national hero because he stood up to the West for Russia’s spiritual interests, and because he made that stand alone, against the ...

Vladimir Putin, honoured like a Russian tsar at his swearing-in for a new six-year presidential term, had a double-edged message for the West: the Kremlin is ready to talk but Russia is girding for ...

Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, his wife and five children were murdered by a revolutionary firing squad in July, 1918, in the cellar of a merchant’s house in Yekaterinburg, a city 1,450 km ...

Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who specialized in bestselling and critically praised biographies of the Russian tsars and discovered a personal connection to the country’s past ...