We explain the causes of Tsar Nicholas II's growing unpopularity - the role of the mysterious Siberian mystic Rasputin, Russia's disastrous involvement in World War One, and the events on the ...

Rodzianko beseeched Nicholas, who was supreme commander (Russia was fighting ... Nicolas II at the Supreme Command Staff HQ in Mogilev during World War I The government troops took sides with ...

The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and German-born Alexandra ... a Russian and remain in her home country. During World War I, she nursed wounded soldiers in a military ...

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...

Richard Cobden, a leading supporter of the Peace Society, and John Bright, a Quaker and member of Parliament, both openly opposed war with Russia. These two politicians from Manchester are shown ...