On March 13, 1881, revolutionaries assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander II. The terrorist organization Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will) hoped to spark a revolution by assassinating the monarch. Instead, ...
In 1867, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel mixed a very unstable explosive, nitroglycerin, with a crumbly substance known as diatomaceous earth. He called his concoction dynamite. Nobel said his intention ...
Geneticists confirm curl from museum's collection belongs to Tsarevich Alexey Romanov PARIS, November 10. /TASS/. Relics from the Russian Imperial Romanov family, illegally seized by a religious ...
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 / ...
On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife, and his five children were woken up before dawn, led into a basement, and shot by a firing squad. Their bodies were burned, doused in acid, and ...
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Almost 100 years after the last tsar and his family were killed, Russian investigators are re-examining the case and exhuming the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Samples are being ...
The so-called Bomb Boys & Girls of Bolshevism, terroristic heroes of Russia’s Revolution, include not only active Bolsheviks like Josef Stalin but a host of passive old men & old women, safely ...
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