He had devoted his life to serving his master - and, even in the face of certain death, that loyalty never wavered. Yet for 90 years, Briton Nicholas Johnson - murdered by Bolshevik ...

It’s a two-hander in which Russian-born composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, dying of melanoma in 1943, conjures up a morphine-fueled visitation from the last czar of Russia, Nicholas II of the ...

Among them is the blood-stained shirt of Czar Alexander II of Russia (Alexander the Liberator) which he wore in the last hours of his life before his assassination on 13 March 1881. The ceremony ...