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 ...
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 / ...
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 ...
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 ...
This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...
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 ...