is passive and has no energy. He lacks the courage and confidence to seek out honorable people . . . . He lacks the power of ...

The Last Tsar, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, is a mesmerising and damning account of the Russian ruler’s failures at home and on the battlefield Privileged though they may be, hereditary monarchs are ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos's rule as Byzantine Emperor was brief, and his death coincided with the fall of Constantinople.

But that progressive political agenda effectively ended on March 13, 1881, when Alexander II – known as the Tsar-Liberator – was assassinated in St Petersburg by a revolutionary. The following ...

Professor Emeritus Tsuyoshi Hasegawa on 'The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs' ...

The figure is described as an "earthly figure, a mature man with a thin face and individualized features, who exudes ...

New-release books explore the healing power of the sea, the blunders behind the downfall of Russia's last Tsar, an Australian ...

During their restoration, Dr. Anastasia Koumousi, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Achaia, identified in the second ...

The sole, surviving portrait of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire Constantine Palaiologos was discovered during restorations in Greece ...