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 ...

Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was an essential part of Stalin's coordinated drive to crush any groups he perceived as a threat to his ...

The painting shows the last minutes of one of the aristocratic ... attached to him until much later. Ivan ruled as Russia’s first-ever czar for nearly four decades. He transformed Russia ...