Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be ...

Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be ...

whatever the tsar's personal fate. Writer Denis Dragunsky says that 2025 opens in Russia as ‘an inviting picture of pro-retrospectives’. No one thought a quarter of a century ago that the ...

All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a ...

Finland's community of approximately 1,500 Jews dates back to the 19th century when they arrived here to serve in the Russian ...