In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued the “Statute on Conscription Duty,” requiring Russian Jews to serve in the army for 25 years. Many recruits were boys, some as young as 12, whisked away and sometimes ...

Czar Nicholas II regarded pogroms as a natural ... The labor strikes are organized by the Polish and Jewish engineers. The world accuses us of making pogroms. but I believe that the pogroms ...

But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...