St. Petersburg will open a new metro station this week, Governor Alexander Beglov announced Thursday, marking the former ...

Unlike the steely-faced heroes of Soviet propaganda, some of the tsarist-era posters depict human weakness. This poster advertises a fund-raising rally “to help victims of the war.” ...

There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could be challenged. This vast, diverse Empire was ruled by a series of Tsars. They ran the country as autocrats. This meant ...

Vladimir Putin has been turned into an ancient tsarist emperor and army marshal in a tribute portrait. A hagiographic image of the Putin, in a highly ornate military dress uniform with elaborate ...

Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seemed relatively secure. Lucidly written and accessible, ...

Peasants and workers alike suffered horrendous living and working conditions and hence posed a threat to the Tsarist regime. Discontent increased in the years before 1905 in the form of riots ...

Although her life had assurance and all the comforts of eminence, it rested on fragile foundations. The Tsarist state maintained its grip over a changing society by repression. Talk of revolution ...

Stefan B. Kirmse challenges these assumptions in this important new study of empire-building, minority rights, and legal practice in late Tsarist Russia, revealing how legal reform transformed ...

The book is about the long shadow of Tsarist Russia’s legacies of the neglected institution of estate (sosloviye), and how they shape present social structure and democracy despite the seven decades ...

But the city's buildings remind you of its Tsarist, Romanian and Soviet past as much as its vibrant present. Moldova's population of 2.6 million is tiny in European terms, and one in five people ...

St. Petersburg will open a new metro station this week, Governor Alexander Beglov announced Thursday, marking the former ...