Generally speaking, the Tsars of Russia didn't have the best track record when it came to assassination attempts. Ivan IV ...

History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who freed the serfs in 1861, just two years before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 (the two world leaders ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - As Catholics and many others across the world mourn and observe the death of Pope Francis, we look back at another pope who died on April 21 nearly 1,000 years ago. Pope ...

Edvard Radzinsky’s “Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar” was one of three books President George W. Bush took with him to Texas on summer vacation this year. Given the prepublication publicity ...

In 1869, a young Russian artist and architect named Viktor Hartmann entered a design competition for an ornamental gate in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The gate was to commemorate a failed ...

Four wooden coffins lie in a row, each draped in a subtly different red and blue standard. Behind them, an ornate iconostasis rises 20 feet to the cupola of the royal chapel. In front of them, ...