Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the last ruler of the Mughal Empire ... a post he held until the end of World War II.) The Russian Empire was the third-largest ever, stretching over parts of Europe ...

Last weekend, Moscow residents ... Like a mirror, the Russian people tend to reflect the sensibility of their rulers. The only way to reverse this is, in the words of Anton Chekhov, to “squeeze ...

For example, with the phrase "head of state" or the word "ruler ... last month that officials have "prepared very nice dictionaries with a certain sense of humor." "They contain Russian variants ...

But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...