In late 1825, a group of reform-minded Russian military officers believed the time was ripe to end the rule of the czars.

Russia’s transformation from an autocracy to a republic also had the potential to increase popular support in the United States for joining the First World War on the side of the allied powers.

I found myself for the first time face to face with the mightiest and most dreaded morarch in the world. In spite of his 56 years the classical Greek features and giant figure of Nicholas I. still ...

Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution. The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg.

St. Nicholas hosted a prayer vigil Friday to mark and mourn the first anniversary of the invasion. Conducted in both English and Ukrainian, the vigil was organized by eighth-grade students at St ...

Opinion North Korean troops in Russia bring a ‘World-Island’ conflict a step closer. The day is long past when Russia, China, Iran and North Korea posed isolated, discrete threats to Western ...

On the morning of Dec. 26, 1825, a group of Russian military officers supported by 3,000 soldiers gathered in Senate Square in the heart of St. Petersburg. They had assembled to force the ...

Russia was actually one of the very first nations to allow women to vote in the world, with only New Zealand - in 1893 - Finland (1906), Denmark and Iceland (both in 1915) beating them to it.

Record-low unemployment and ultra-hot inflation have put Russia “on the brink” of a recession, its economy minister said.

Nicholas Daniloff, reporter for U.S. News & World Report, stands with his family and President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan after his release from being detained in Russia, on Sept. 1, 1986.

First, the Japanese fleet got the better of the Russian one at the Battle of the Yellow Sea in August 1904, naval history’s longest-range gunnery duel to date.

Rasputin was killed by a group of Russian nobles, including Prince Felix Youssupov (Czar Nicholas’ niece’s husband) and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (Nicholas’ cousin) in December 1916.