"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," Riccardi ...

The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I has led a mass at ... Ipatyev in Yekaterinburg where the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants ...

(JTA) – A Russian Justice Ministry official repeated a local bishop’s claim that Jews murdered the last czar for ritual ... on the 1918 slaying of Nicholas II of Russia, said Monday at a ...

Putting up a monument to Czar Nicholas II would mark Montenegro’s permanent gratitude to Russia as the centuries-old benefactor BELGRADE, May 3. /TASS/. Serb National Council (SNC) that unites ...

It's just men and women praying together, as the Doukhobors have done since the pacifist Christian sect emerged in Russia in the ... allegiance to the new czar, Nicholas II, and protested by ...

All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a ...

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...