By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025
Meeting Protestants in Ukraine
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Tag Archives: Catherine the Great
The Nature of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Imperialism
The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins
A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church
The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him
The Last Tsar and the Duty of Monarchy
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 December 2021
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich in exile in France, February 1929
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (1866-1933), the brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917), gives an interesting anecdote in the second volume of his memoirs, Always a Grand Duke, published in the year he died, 1933, showing how the last Russian Emperor conceived of the duties of his office. Continue reading
The Last Coup of the Russian Tsardom
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 March 2021
Tsar Pavel I
A few days ago, it was the 220th anniversary of the palace coup that, in the early hours of 24 March 1801, deposed the Russian Tsar, Pavel (Paul) I, the last of the Russian monarchs to fall in this way.[1] Continue reading
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