Innovative, intelligent, and physically imposing: these are a few adjectives that describe Russia’s great Emperor Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725). …
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Great and Terrible Russians: A Guide to the Tsars and Tsarinas
From glory to ruin, these Tsars ruled over the Russian Empire with an iron fist.
Catherine the Great was born an obscure German princess but became the Russian Empire’s longest-ruling female leader who ruled in her own right. …
Countries, including Russia, are shaped by historical legacies. However, individual actors may play an even greater role in the formation of a state, …
Russia’s imperial aspirations began when she resisted the violence and oppression of the Tatars (1480), and united her divided principalities (1523), …
In the early 20th century, the Russian tradition of writing letters to the Tsar became a troubling signal of new and uncertain times.
Grand Prince Nicholas Alexandrovitch was born in 1868. Growing up in an environment of luxury, the future Tsar did not have much to worry about, as …
Did the Russian Empire ever have a liberal tsar? Tsar Alexander II certainly enacted more liberal reforms than many other tsars, but can he truly be …
If it isn’t already obvious, Ivan the Terrible is often depicted in art, created a long time after his tenure as Tsar, as a scouring, awful, cruel …
