It’s 1894, the previous Tzar had just died and it’s time for a new one to be crowned. Nicholas II was crowned that year as Tzar of Russia. He was one of the worst leaders of the modern era. He was not ...

Peter Lindberg (L), one of the heads of the Ocean X team that recovered hundreds of bottles of liquor from a WW1-era wreck in ... of liquor destined for Tsar Nicholas II’s Russia has been ...

King George V of Britain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia each possessed impeccable Vandyke beards; people had trouble telling the men apart. In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II had so elaborate a ...

One hundred years ago this week, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany exchanged a series of telegrams to try to stop the rush to a war that neither of them wanted. They signed ...

One hundred years ago today, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks took power in Russia, only eight months after Czar Nicholas II had abdicated the throne amid a popular uprising and soldier mutiny.

In that scorching summer, King George was a worried man. His Russian cousin, Czar Nicholas II, had recently lost his throne and was under house arrest. In Germany, another imperial cousin ...