A Faberge egg, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II in 1913, is poised to fetch over £20 million at auction. Known as the ...

For more than 100 years, Russia has illegally occupied Wrangel Island, an American-claimed island in the Arctic—and has now fortified it with a military base. As Russia’s militarization of the Arctic ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

For over 25 years, beginning with George Gershwin Alone, Hershey Felder has been embodying the lives and art of famous composers onstage, including Chopin, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. And he’s always ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug 15 (Reuters) - A flurry of superpower-style signalling from Washington and Moscow over the war in Ukraine heralded the first U.S.-Russian summit in four years, but on the ground ...

Pianist/actor/writer Hershey Felder returns to Writers Theatre with his latest theatrical production, “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” a combination bio-concert about the great Russian ...

July 17 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1918, Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family were killed by Bolsheviks who had held them captive for two months. Though the whereabouts of their bodies was ...

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France and the U.S., appearing in films and on the pages of glossy magazines Meilan ...

The Russian Revolution happened over 100 years ago, at the tail end of World War I. After centuries of being ruled by a sprawling empire governed by the Romanov family, combined with the devastating ...

May 18 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include: -- Russian Czar Nicholas II in 1868 -- Philosopher/mathematician Bertrand Russell ...

The great British historian Herbert Butterfield cautioned against the temptation to tell a neat story about historical events or discover “an unfolding logic” in them. History, he argued, is ...

If you thought Easter eggs were just for kids and candy hunts, think again. From imperial treasures once clutched by Russian royalty to a 110-pound chocolate masterpiece, these eggs are anything but ...