Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...

Francis T. "Fay" Vincent led an amazing life for 86 years until his death Feb. 1. Columnist Larry Reisman reflects on the life of a man of character.

Beginning in the 1850’s, Jews, who now constitute a tiny percentage of the country’s 5.5 million citizens, were conscripted into the czar’s army ... old Talmud books from the late 1800 ...

Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

In a recent interview with NBC News, Tom Homan, who has been tapped to serve as the “border czar” for President ... Writing for Prism last week, journalist Sarah Prager noted several ...

Book Review: A colourful and compelling portrait of Russia’s last tsar The Japanese author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa successfully argues that, far from being inevitable, the blame for the fall of Nicholas II ...

Tech-entrepreneur David Sacks, the incoming White House czar for AI and cryptocurrency ... He will pay for it in the history books, if not in a court of law.” CNN’s KFile counted at least ...