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15 Real Love Stories That Ended in Heartbreaking Tragedy

We grow up believing that love conquers all. Movies, books, and fairy tales often promise happy endings, but real life doesn't always follow the same script. Some of history's most unforgettable romances began with hope, passion, and dreams of forever only to end in heartbreak, loss, betrayal, or tragedy. These…

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Russian Revolution gold coin hoard worth over $500,000 discovered during house construction

Archaeologists excavating the foundation of a historic house in Russia discovered 409 coins buried before the revolution in 1917.

LiveScience

Rasputin: Untangling the man from the wild and complicated myth

REVIEW: Was he a demonic master manipulator who seduced half the Russian aristocracy or a misunderstood mystic? Guy Walters picks up Antony Beevor’s new biography and discovers a powerful new reading of one of the most charismatic figures in history

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Fabergé egg made for mother of Russia’s last tsar sells for £23m

Christie’s says the sale price is the highest for a Fabergé, beating a £8.9m auction in 2007

The Guardian - UK

Crystal Fabergé egg crafted for Russian royalty shatters record and sells for $30.2 million

A rare Fabergé egg crafted for Russia’s ruling family before the revolution has sold for more $30 million

The Independent UK

Rare Fabergé 'Winter Egg' set to fetch over €22 million at London auction

A rare Fabergé egg, commissioned by the last Emperor of Russia, is expected to fetch more than £20 million (€22.8m) at auction.

Euronews

Royal family gift thought to be lost for decades could break auction records

One art expert likened it to a ‘luxurious Kinder Surprise chocolate’

The Independent UK

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Russian Revolution royal refugee claimed to resurface in West Virginia. It took a sample of her intestine to prove her story wrong

A royal mystery that only found its answer in death.

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Russian Emperor’s ‘Winter egg’ gift to mother set to sell for more than £20 million

The Winter Egg was commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II in 1913 as an Easter gift to his mother

The Independent UK

Faberge egg estimated to sell for more than £20million at London auction

The Winter Egg was commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II in 1913 as an Easter gift to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

Evening Standard

30 Weird But True Facts About Royals

How many of these royal facts will actually surprise you?

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30 Surprising Facts About Royals History Textbooks Forgot To Mention

How many of these royal facts will actually surprise you?

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This Instagram Account Shares Historical Pics In Their Original Form, And These 28 Are Just Wow

Photos play an important role in our understanding of history.

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This Instagram Account Shares Historical Pics In Their Original Form, And These 40 Are Just Wow

Photos play an important role in our understanding of history. The post This Instagram Account Shares Historical Pics In Their Original Form, And These 40 Are Just Wow first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The Conversation

How Vladimir Putin projects his image as a modern-day Peter the Great

Russian energy giant Gazprom is reported to have been hit particularly hard by sanctions imposed as a result of the war with Ukraine. An internal report – obtained and published by the Financial Times – has forecast that the company is unlikely to recover gas sales lost as a result…

The Guardian - UK

Michael Jayston obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor hailed for his roles in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra and BBC TV’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Guardian - UK

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service – review

This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-politcal drama – and attempts to rehabilitate the ‘bourgeois’ provisional government that preceded the Bolsheviks

The Independent UK

Wagner chief gloats about comparisons to Rasputin

Yevgeny Prigozhin made the comments in response to a Financial Times article comparing him to Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin

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Reason

Pronouncing Foreigners' Names

Some comments on the thread about pronouncing foreign country names (such as Qatar and France) raised the question of how we should pronounce foreign people's names. Here too my answer is: We should follow the English norms, which often depart from the norms in those people's native languages—just like, I…

The Independent UK

The Crown: Who were the Romanovs and did King George V betray the Tsar?

The new series shines a light on the link between the British royal family and the Russian imperial family

Daily Mirror

Russian state TV hails 'Putin the Emperor' in delusional diatribe after chilling speech

Yevgeny Satanovsky compared Vladimir Putin to the "Emperor of All Russia" Tsar Nicholas II - who was toppled in Russia's 1917 revolution - although he said Putin was better

The Guardian - UK

The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes review – Vladimir Putin and the power of myth-making

The historian’s latest work on Russia is a lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation’s past have been used to shape its autocratic present

The Guardian - UK

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor review – butchery of the Bolsheviks

Personal testimonies humanise the Stalingrad author’s mesmerising study of the bloody battle for power after the collapse of the tsarist regime

The Conversation

What would King Charles mean for the monarchy, Australia and the republican movement?

This week’s Platinum Jubilee marks 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign over “the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth”. This occasion, the first ever for a British monarch, allows us to reflect on the importance of succession.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Russia didn’t learn from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. But Ukraine can

On television and online, commentators reach furiously for comparisons to past conflicts for insights into the Ukrainian-Russian war. How will it ever end?

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