On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of ...

This is why I was uncertain about launching myself into historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's newly published book, The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs. As despotic and ...

This all changed in 1917 with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the overthrow of the Tsarist regime. In February 1917, the Imperial Porcelain Factory became the State Porcelain Factory.