I drove up to white and sumptuous Livadia Palace with some difficulty. The palace, once a royal summer residence built and frequented by the last Russian Tsar, stands on a rather steep slope amidst a ...

Like so many things Russian, Livadia twists one’s emotions in different directions. The upstairs walls are hung with intimate photos of the Czar, Empress Alexandra, and their lovely children. The ...

SUZDAL, November 3. /TASS/. Honorary chairman of the Coordination Council of Compatriots of Britain Prince Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky has proposed that the oldest member of Russia’s imperial Romanov ...

It must have been cold then too, when allied leaders met here in February 1945 to reshape a shattered Europe. At the Livadia Palace in Yalta, snow is piled up against the palm trees, and another storm ...

On April 22, 2017, a bust of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States commonly known as FDR, was unveiled in Yalta, on a street named in his honor. Back in the 1960s, one of ...

While on vacation in the Crimea, they would spend days, months and years here. The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy wanted to be buried here, the legendary opera singer Feodor Chaliapin worked on his ...