Is it true you're the greatest man in the world?' I asked Grandpapa. 'Yes,' he said. 'Now bugger off and leave me alone.' NICHOLAS SOAMES poignantly opens up on …
To this day, when I remember my grandfather's funeral - now exactly 60 years ago - the hairs still stand up on the back of my ...
Interesting Engineering25d
Emily Warren Roebling
She traveled extensively, was presented to Queen Victoria, and attended the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II. In one of her most notable essays, "A Wife's Disabilities," which she published under ...
Spanish and Danish royals gather in Athens for Greek society wedding
Members of Spanish and Danish royal families have gathered in Athens for the wedding of Nikolaos, son of Greece’s late former ...
Sydney Morning Herald5d
Was it a series of bad decisions that brought down the Romanovs?
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, rejects the argument that Russian imperialism was unsalvageable in the face of pressure from the modernising ...
U.S. News & World Report3d
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Cathedrale Orthodoxe Russe St. Nicolas)
Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the late tsarevich but also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing ...
New York Post7d
‘Repetitive compulsive’ NJ sex offender Nicholas Voutsas on the lam after escaping from hospital van
Nicholas Voutsas, who is listed as a Tier 2 sex offender on the Garden State’s registry, was being transported to University Hospital on Thursday when he broke free around 9 a.m. — and is ...