"There's a long-running idea in mystical Russian theology that Russia is holding back the Antichrist and is doing that specifically through the prayers of the departed Czar Nicholas II," ...

The Grand Duke Nicholas—no! “What is Cyril doing? He is not exactly doing—he is making propaganda. Only little pamphlets! Books are impossible—he can not get them into Russia. . . . We are ...

It has forced Russia to reorient its lucrative European energy trade to less profitable markets. Like Czar Nicholas II, Russian President Vladimir Putin has misidentified his primary foe.

For the first time in almost thousand years Orthodox believers in Russia will be able to venerate one of the most important Saints, without leaving their country. St. Nicholas, called by the ...

The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. Alexandra was not hugely popular in Russia. She was reserved and awkward in public. More importantly ...