Following are real estate transactions over $5,000 as listed in records of the Erie County Clerk’s Office for the week ending Feb. 7, 2025. 3022 Peters Corners Rd, Linda E Manera to Chad J Schlifke, ...

Vibrant, traditional, and modern, Russia’s two major cultural centers represent centuries of the country’s rich and turbulent ...

As the lives of the Tsar and his family hung in the balance, King George V of England weighed family ties against politics.

The 1978 hit Ra Ra Rasputin by Boney M is based on the life of Grigori Rasputin, a mystic who gained influence over Russia’s ...

More than a century ago, in 1913, Sergey Sazonov, then Foreign Minister of Russia, told Tsar Nicholas II: “The straits in the hands of a strong state means the full subjection of the economic ...

Yes, that’s a World War I-era machine gun in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers. The Pulemyot Maxima 1910 machine gun—first produced under Tsar Nicholas II—is a Russian-made copy of Hiram Maxim’s ...

Pope Francis is a historical figure, the first Pope from Latin America and the first member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) to sit on the throne of Peter. He breathed his last after struggling for ...

The author clearly has an affinity with his subject: Nicholas II was an incompetent ruler and Mr Radzinsky is an incompetent historian. Before I say another unkind word let me quote from the chapter ...

“This monumental retelling of the story tries to balance what audiences know of the animated film and the true story of the assassination of Tsar Nicholass II and his family with the story of ...

The election of a new pope underwent changes in the papal bull (a public decree from a pope) of 1058, written by Pope Nicholas II, which established the practice of having cardinal-bishops be the ...

Following the assassination attempt, Tsar Nicholas II had The Okhrana (secret police ... In a letter to Tsarina Alexandra, Rasputin predicted he was going to be murdered by members of the nobility. He ...