A London courtroom. On the bench, pale and dignified in a black gown and white wig, last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest ...

On the morning of December 29, 1916, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was startled by a phone call that turned out to be yet another death threat. His daughter, Maria, later remembered that it put him in a ...

A peasant mystic who rose to command an empire’s throne room, Rasputin’s story blurs the line between miracle and madness. His influence would haunt Russia forever. 'Tragedy averted' at Atlanta ...

In the volumes of Russian history there are a great many famous names. In the arts we read of Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, on the battlefield there was Peter the Great and Zhukov and in the sciences, ...