#OnThisDay, March 15, in 1917, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the Russian throne, ending 300 years of Romanov rule, the last full autocracy in Europe (The Last Czars, 2019)

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We Might Think We Know Russia. Why We’re Wrong | The Tyee

And what our assumptions tell us. Inside a book by Orlando Figes, and where ‘The Story of Russia’ remains unwritten.

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