“The Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh ... despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a parliament, or Duma.

Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, ...

Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

Book Review: A colourful and compelling portrait of Russia’s last tsar The Japanese author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa successfully argues that, far from being inevitable, the blame for the fall of Nicholas II ...