Delve into the mystery surrounding the assassination of Grigori Rasputin, and see how the circumstances of his death have ...

Icons are stylised, often gilded religious paintings considered sacred in Eastern Orthodox Churches. Andrei Rublyov's Trinity, one of the holiest and most artistically important Russian icons ...

Rasputin’s religious fervor, combined with his appealing personal charisma, brought him to the attention of Russian Orthodox clergy ... who brought me an icon of Saint Simeon of Verkhoturye.

The Russian Orthodox Church has issued a demand for an apology from Alla Pugacheva, the country's most celebrated pop singer, who recently returned to Russia, following her public criticism about ...

After its stay at the Christ the Saviour, the icon will be transported to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius – the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Moscow – where it had ...

SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE-DES-BOIS, France — The largest Russian Orthodox cemetery outside of ... who in 1916 helped murder Grigori Rasputin in an effort to break the self-described holy man's hold ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday, May 27, dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the ...