Though vested with absolute power, Tsar Nicholas II faced mounting unrest driven by poverty, harsh industrial conditions, and political repression. This video explores how mass discontent and the ...

After the 1905 revolution, Russia had a chance to reform, but Tsar Nicholas II undermined political change, crushed opposition, and weakened Russia’s position at home and abroad. In 1914, his decision ...

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MOSCOW — For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne.

Before the iconic red suit and the sleigh, the real St. Nicholas lived and died in ancient Lycia, modern-day Antalya Province, Türkiye. St. Nick didn’t grow up with reindeer. He grew up walking among ...

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Mary Thorn Carpenter’s travelogue, though written from the perspective of a privileged American visitor, vividly portrays the ...

Patara, birthplace of St Nicholas, is a wide-open sprawl of ruins framed by farmland and dunes in Türkiye. Georg Knoll/laif, Redux Before the iconic red suit and the sleigh, the real St. Nicholas ...