The last tsar : the life and death of Nicholas II Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines&&sources never before available to create a&&fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a&&minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.&&Updated For The Paperback Edition.From the T... dva...
Tsar Alexis, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, c. 1670; in the State Historical Museum, Moscow. tsar, title associated primarily with rulers of Russia. The termtsar, a form of the ancient Roman imperial titlecaesar,generated a series of derivatives in Russian:tsaritsa,a tsar’s wi...
Ivan IIIIvan III, portrait from A. Thenet,La Cosmographie universelle, Paris, 1575. InmedievalRussia the titletsarreferred to a supreme ruler, particularly theByzantineemperor, who was considered the head of the Orthodox Christian world. But the fall of theByzantine Empirein 1453 and the Ottoman...
In January 1917, Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia while Bolshevik Vladmir Lenin lived in exile. By October, revolution had reversed their roles, leaving the former tsar a prisoner and Lenin holding all the power.
Ivan IIIIvan III, portrait from A. Thenet,La Cosmographie universelle, Paris, 1575. InmedievalRussia the titletsarreferred to a supreme ruler, particularly theByzantineemperor, who was considered the head of the Orthodox Christian world. But the fall of theByzantine Empirein 1453 and the Ottoman...
(instructions for a law code). Interested inliteratureandethics, he was drawn to the works of the English novelistsLaurence SterneandCharles Dickensand, especially, to the writings of the French philosopherJean-Jacques Rousseau; in place of a cross, he wore a medallion with a portrait of ...
Alexander IIIAlexander III, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 19th century; in the collection of Mrs. Merriweather Post, Hillwood, Washington, D.C. Alexander III, RussianAleksandr Aleksandrovich, (born March 10, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Nov. 1, 1894, Livadiya, Crimea), ...
Alexander IIAlexander II, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 19th century; in the collection of Mrs. Merriweather Post, Hillwood, Washington, D.C. Alexander succeeded to the throne at age 36, following the death of his father in February 1855, at the height of theCrimean War. The...
Mikhail Mikhaylovich, Count SperanskyMikhail Mikhaylovich, Count Speransky, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist. Conservativeopinion was very much incensed against Alexander’s alliance with the “Corsican usurper,” especially as at that very time that another and more serious attempt was ...