Mikhail Ustinov’s ancestors were executed in 1917 for supporting the tsar but a hundred years later the 68-year-old yearns for the return of monarchy to Russia. Romanov Descendants Demand Public Trial Of Tsar’s Murder As 100 Year Anniversary Approaches “Russians are monarchists in their soul, even though the Soviets tried…
Image by Shakko The first monument to Ivan the Terrible, the Russian tsar who rule with an iron fist and his know for his brutality, was recently erected in Moscow. Ivan was a consequential tsar who many attribute to founding the system today in Moscow where the leader is protected…
Two Russian soldiers are posted on a mountaintop. One of them is looking through binoculars. The first soldier asks the other, “Can you see Putin?” “No, I can’t,” the second soldier shrugs. “Nevertheless,” says the first soldier, “he exists.” An old family friend named Olga is telling this joke as…
Russia’s czarist era, which ended a century ago, was marked by cruelty and oppression, and finished in a chaotic spasm of blood, anger and confusion. But there are those in the country today who believe the monarchist system should be restored. Some of them reflected on their views to The…
Konstantin Malofeev, principal owner of tsargrad.tv called for the institution in Russia of constitutional monarchy that would have only ceremonial powers. In his opinion Russia has nod had legitimate rule since the abdication of Nicholas II in March 1917. Malofeev called for a constitutional assembly that would reinstate the monarchy…