A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 8, 1917, protests against food ...

As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...

This is how Russian Emperor Nicholas II reacted to troubling news delivered by Chairman of the State Duma Mikhail Rodzianko, who on Feb. 26, according to the Old Style calendar (March 11 ...

The events of 1917 changed the course of Russian, and indeed world, history. But as these remarkable then-and-now pictures show, pockets of Russia's two largest cities have endured almost ...

Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...

On March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the ...

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 ...

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 ...