Historical men and women

One problem with being born as a royal princess in past centuries was that you rarely had much choice as to who your life partner woul...

History is full of stories that “everybody knows” but which later turn out not to be true after all. One of these concerns the assassi...

On 30 th December 1916 the “mad monk” Grigory Rasputin was murdered in St Petersburg, thus depriving the Tsar and Tsarina of their l...

Pre-Revolutionary Russia was ruled by a long series of Tsars who were often intriguing characters who did remarkable things. During t...

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, died on 6th November 1796 at the age of 67, having reigned as the absolute monarch of Russia f...