Tsar Alexander II of Russia stood at the crossroads of history—after all, his reign paved the way to the fall of the Romanov empire. And when you look at his scandalous life, it’s no wonder why it ...

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar Edvard Radzinsky, , trans. from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. . Free Press, $35 (462pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-7332-9 ...

But on March 13, 1881, that all came to an end. Travelling in his carriage in St Petersburg, Alexander II was assassinated by a band of revolutionaries, an act witnessed first-hand by Alexander III.

March 1st, 1881, the day Alexander II was assassinated, was apparently the worst day for the Russian Emperor’s personal security guards. But it could get worse, because Russia could lose the ...

This towering monument to Tsar Alexander II was situated in the southeastern corner of Moscow’s Kremlin. Alexander II was best known for the emancipation of serfs in 1861. He was killed by a ...

In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million. Trump probably wouldn’t be able to get that kind of bargain for Greenland.

“It came to me that, perhaps, they are drinkable.” The divers have since learned that the boat could have been destined for Tsar Alexander II, who ruled in Russia from 1855 to 1881.