Six months later, a terminal illness brought forth the memory of an encounter with Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas II, and the tsar ... intersection of art and power, showcasing Rachmaninoff ...

In the liminal space of a Beverly Hills garden, the spirit of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff examines his life as his corporeal ...

Tsar Alexander III of Russia sparked a royal tradition that would become one of the most opulent and iconic legacies in the ...

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the first to declare Stalin's personal and comprehensive guilt for the failures of our ...

The Louvre noted that "this icon will be the centerpiece of the museum's new department, given its historical significance and the fact that it is the work of one of the most renowned jewelers of the ...

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 ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced ... Johnson was involved in drawing up Michael's response a day after Nicholas' abdication on 15 ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the late tsarevich but also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing ...