Generally speaking, the Tsars of Russia didn't have the best track record when it came to assassination attempts. Ivan IV spent his short life behind prison and was stabbed by his own guards; Paul I ...

The tsar and the president / Marilyn P. Swezey -- Alexander II, tsar-liberator / Andrei D. Yanovskiy -- Accession to power and the coronation / Ludmila M. Kanaeva -- The tsar's special attribute / ...

The assassins hurled their first round of explosives as Czar Alexander II traveled in his carriage through the streets of St. Petersburg. The czar survived, thanks to the carriage’s armor. But ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - A century after the October Revolution that ended his family's three-century reign of Russia, Hans Georg Yourievsky believes the country needs a tough leader. But -- for now at ...

History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who freed the serfs in 1861, just two years before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 (the two world leaders ...

With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's beginning, I'm glad that the Feb. 24 news article "Lincoln, the czar and the freeing of peoples" mentioned Czar Alexander II's sending the Russian Baltic ...