A grateful and statesmanlike tsar hand selects a botany-themed ... gifts of precious jasper from Alexander III's father, Alexander II (assassinated in 1881), which included two vases made of ...

While the parallels between Berlusconi and Trump are striking—arguably, Berlusconi wrote the playbook for billionaire ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Ewan McGregor (“Trainspotting”) stars as the aristocratic Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov in ... meet on a mission to Morocco during World War II. Once the mission is over and they return ...

Tsar Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of ... Alas, for his troubles he was assassinated by anarchists on 13 March, 1881. When his son, Alexander III ascended the throne, ...

The assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 led to pogroms being unleashed because the Jews were blamed, falsely, for his assassination. The pogroms lasted for three years and led to the greatest ...

Benedict III’s reign as Catholic Pope ends with his death 1397: Geoffrey Chaucer tells the “Canterbury Tales” for the ...

In 44 BC, when Caesar was assassinated, Cleopatra – a much-disliked ... The following year Cleopatra gave birth to twins: Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II. Antony, however, had finally been ...

When Alexander II found out that Emperor Henry IV planned to divorce his wife, the pope would not approve his coronation and Henry IV returned to his wife. Pope Alexander II is believed to have ...