Generally speaking, the Tsars of Russia didn't have the best track record when it came to assassination attempts. Ivan IV spent his short life behind prison and was stabbed by his own guards; Paul I ...
In 1867, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel mixed a very unstable explosive, nitroglycerin, with a crumbly substance known as diatomaceous earth. He called his concoction dynamite. Nobel said his intention ...
The tsar and the president / Marilyn P. Swezey -- Alexander II, tsar-liberator / Andrei D. Yanovskiy -- Accession to power and the coronation / Ludmila M. Kanaeva -- The tsar's special attribute / ...
In 1869, a young Russian artist and architect named Viktor Hartmann entered a design competition for an ornamental gate in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The gate was to commemorate a failed ...
This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...
Dmitry Romanov, a descendant of the tsar's family, pays his respects in 2008 at the tomb holding the remains of Nicholas II, Alexandra and their three daughters in St. Petersburg's St. Peter and Paul ...
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