Of the four Grand Duchesses, Tatiana achieved the most success in her war work and became a well known public figure in her own right. In...

Click here to read the review in The Royal Studies Journal, Volume 2, Number 2, 2015.

Peter the Great in 1698 I will be giving a lecture at Deer Park Library in Toronto (40 St. Clair Avenue East) about Peter the Great of...

Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, the wife of Catherine the Great’s youngest grandson, Michael Pavlovich, assumed in her own lifetime that...

Grand Duchess Olga during her last years in Canada Grand Duchess Olga, younger sister of Russia’s last Czar, Nicholas II, lived in Canada...

Despite all these sources, the distinct personalities and achievements of Nicholas and Alexandra’s daughters are little known. In...

My column in today’s Globe and Mail discusses Prince Charles’s remarks on Vladimir Putin. There’s a long history of royalty making...

Here’s today’s schedule of CBC radio interviews 3:00 WINNIPEG     — Up to Speed 3:20 NEW BRUNSWICK — Shift 3:40 HALIFAX   — Mainstreet...

Stachniak’s Catherine is steeped in Russian folk proverbs from her time learning the language and constantly struggles with conflicts...

Portrait of Catherine the Great as a Legislator in the Temple Devoted to the Goddess of Justice by Dmitri Levitsky, early 1780s. My...

Czar Alexander II As you watch the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi today, it is worth reflecting on the troubled...

“A Scene from the Caucasian War” by Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud My latest column in the Ottawa Citizen discusses the expulsion of the...

While I was away on the Baltic Cruise these past couple weeks, my article about the remains of Richard III, “Richard III’s Bones of...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in June, 2013 With days to go before the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s 1st child,...

Lyudmila Putina in 2007 On Thursday June 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila Putina announced on state television...

The earliest surviving portrait of Richard III The controversy surrounding the burial of Richard III, whose remains were discovered last...

By synthesizing the known source material about the daily lives of the Grand Duchesses and analyzing their reading material and cultural...