Controversy is stirring in Russia over a film in the works about the last Russian tsar’s affair with a famous actress, with nationalists threatening to burn theaters that plan to screen Matilda ...

These are the best movies about the Russian Revolution, which allow the audience to witness the fall of the last Tsars and the birth of a new nation. 'Nicholas and Alexandra' (1971) Directed by ...

The attempt in Yekaterinburg was significant for another reason: Czar Nicholas II and his family were killed there in 1918. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized them in 2000 — and conservative ...

A recent Molotov cocktail attack on a Moscow Jewish community center can be attributed to a new movie about the Russian Tsar, the Jewish community believes. Security footage caught a man tossing ...

Hundreds of billboards affirming the tsar's love for his empress have been welcomed by director of controversial film 'Matilda.' Russian Orthodox Church Takes Aim at Film About Last Tsar’s Affair ...

I hadn’t realized it, but Czar Nicholas II was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church (in the West in 1981, back in Russia in 2000). Now a forthcoming Russian movie,”Matilda,” about his ...

This joint Russian-Serbian movie was based on real events that happened in Kosovo in 1999 when Albanians planned the genocide of the local Serbian population. ... Tsar Alexander I died, ...

Reporting from St. Petersburg — Alexei Uchitel sits in the elegant lobby cafe of the historic Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg and answers an endless stream of phone calls about his … ...