Fanny Kaplan (born Feiga Roitblat) was born on February 10, 1890, in Volhynia Governorate, in the family of a teacher ( ...
In the spring of 1917, the German spy service sensed a sure-fire means of persuading Russia to make a separate peace and exit the Great War. Czar Nicholas II had abdicated in the face of mass protests ...
Newspapers in Petrograd publish a secret telegram by the Provisional Government’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which Russia promises to abide by the tsar’s secret treaties and “fight the world war ...
Russia’s war effort turns into catastrophe as defeats pile up, shortages deepen, and the royal court retreats into Rasputin fueled dysfunction while the country fractures. In March 1917, Petrograd ...