Nicholas II (1868 - 1918), the last Tsar of Russia, circa 1917. Prohibition is among the most misunderstood chapters in world history, especially since we falsely assume it was a uniquely American ...
A 15-man crew was needed to control this 60-ton monster. Even then it never managed to roll away from its production site. In the middle of WWI (1914-18), Russian engineers envisioned building a tank ...
Tsar Bomba nuclear test was the biggest ever: Since Russia first invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago, President Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin officials have routinely threatened nuclear escalation ...
Both spectacular and pious, "Tsar" positions itself between Sergei Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" and Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev," though without their originality and inspiration. By The ...
When picturing a tank, most people would include tracks, a relatively low profile, and a design that likely looks nothing like the strange Tsar Tank. First tested in 1915, the Tsar Tank was an ...
Busts of the late Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra are on display For the first time, Russians have the chance to examine the evidence surrounding the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his ...
In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a bomb so powerful that its shock waves circled the globe three times. Nicknamed Tsar Bomba, it was 3,000 times stronger than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima ...
A secret diary has revealed that Russia's last Tsar got a teenage girl pregnant during an illicit love affair. Glamorous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska was Nicholas II’s mistress before he wed German ...