Move over Catherine the Great, Anna of Russia is in town. This hard-living, bitter-hearted Tsarina may not be as well known as the so-called Great, but she has more debauched antics and cruel ...

On the morning of November 2, 2022, Green Leaf activist Vladislav Balinskyi redecorated a local monument to Russian tsarina Catherine the Great by placing an executioner's hood on her head and a ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia ...

The rebel leader was a Cossack named Yemelyan Pugachev, his nemesis was the Tsarina Catherine the Great, and the novel — The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin — was published a whole ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia ...

Catherine the Great by Levitsky, on display at Hillwood Estate. The portrait was presented by the Tsarina to her banker in Amsterdam, Henry Thomas Hope (who later owned Hope Diamond). Contained within ...