BFI’s collection of Victorian 68mm film – the “IMAX of their day” – afforded protected status as part of a collection of 300 titles that will be added to UNESCO’s register.

an Art Nouveau villa given by Czar Nicholas II to his ballet-star mistress and seized by Bolsheviks in March 1917. I’d arranged ahead of time for a private tour of the elegant block-long villa ...

Czar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra of Russia met her ... John Ruskin, England’s leading art critic, debated the merits of watercolors with her. A porcelain doll was made in her image and ...