Fabergé egg Russia's last emperor gifted to his mother sells for record-breaking £23million ⊖
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Tsar Nicholas II gifted the Winter Egg to Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1913, five years before he was murdered along with his wife and children after the Russian Revolution.
4 months ago
Malcolm McDowell: ‘I would be a total disaster as a spy – I do love to gossip’ ⊕
The actor on nailing Rupert Murdoch’s accent, working with Stanley Kubrick and missing old-fashioned dinner parties
Your new film The Partisan is about spies during the second world war. Would you mak…
6 months ago
Otter pelts, Orthodox priests and a $7.2m bargain: how Russia sold Alaska to the US ○
Tsar Alexander II sold oil-rich territory to the US in 1867. Will Friday’s high-stakes summit between Putin and Trump result in a warming of historic ties?
Donald Trump appeared to confuse geography a…
7 months ago
The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided ○
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Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between et…
9 months ago
Brutality of Russia's last Tsar revealed in message in a bottle found hidden at a monastery 120 years on ○
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Penned in May 1905 by a blacksmith named Karol Szulc, the letter was discovered during conservation work at the 16th century Benardine monastery in the village of Kazimierz Biskupi.
Kremlin cites past wars as it threatens long conflict in Ukraine ○
Russian peace negotiator invokes Peter the Great’s 21-year struggle to defeat Sweden, as Putin is fond of doing
Peter the Great’s long war against Sweden – a grinding conflict that claimed countless R…
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