The assassins hurled their first round of explosives as Czar Alexander II traveled in his carriage through the streets of St. Petersburg. The czar survived, thanks to the carriage’s armor. But ...

A packet of love letters in which the 19th century Czar Alexander II declares he belongs ”body and soul” to his 20 year-old mistress, Katia, is to be sold in Paris, auctioneers Christie’s said this ...

And long before al-Qaida, there was the People’s Will, whose bombers assassinated Alexander, Russia’s czar liberator. In “Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar,” Edvard Radzinsky tells how one of ...

Here’s Abraham Lincoln on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, larger than life, shaking hands with Czar Alexander II. They are the Emancipator and the Liberator, joined together in a new work by sculptor ...

The tsar and the president / Marilyn P. Swezey -- Alexander II, tsar-liberator / Andrei D. Yanovskiy -- Accession to power and the coronation / Ludmila M. Kanaeva -- The tsar's special attribute / ...

It's difficult to reform Russia, as popular historian Radzinsky shows in this lively examination of the czar best known for emancipating the serfs in 1861. Viewed as the most liberal of Russia's ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - A century after the October Revolution that ended his family's three-century reign of Russia, Hans Georg Yourievsky believes the country needs a tough leader. But -- for now at ...

With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's beginning, I'm glad that the Feb. 24 news article "Lincoln, the czar and the freeing of peoples" mentioned Czar Alexander II's sending the Russian Baltic ...

In 1869, a young Russian artist and architect named Viktor Hartmann entered a design competition for an ornamental gate in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The gate was to commemorate a failed ...

A member of Russian royalty came to Topeka in 1872. This week’s History Guy video at CJOnline focuses on that visit by Grand Duke Alexis, the son of Russian Czar Alexander II and younger brother of ...