Although neither man could know it at the time, Tsar Nicholas II’s parting words to Serbian ... anything in the near term, since Russia’s war industries were fully occupied supplying its ...

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 ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man ... disaffected fighting in the First World War: Russia has been bleeding for almost three ...

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 ...

A Russian author has sensationally claimed Grand Duchess Anastasia - the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II - may have survived ... to the end of the First World War. "Why such mercy on the ...