The head and front of the offending was the unspeakable Rasputin, whose sinister influence over the Tsarina gave rise to a mass of scandalous reports that discredited the monarchy, encouraged the ...

The Ethics Foundation of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) banned Irina Viner from coaching or officiating in any international competition for two years, in a decision published this ...

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The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is the venue for this performance of Tchaikovsky's opera The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki), staged by The Royal Opera for the first time. Show more The ...

The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. Alexandra was not hugely popular in Russia. She was reserved and awkward in public. More importantly ...