The most famous are the Imperial eggs, of which 43 are known to survive today. These were made for Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II as Easter gifts for the women in their lives.

Next thing Russia knew, the 14 tried at Leningrad had been taken out and shot before their sentence was announced. The Government stated that they were denied legal defense to the last.

One of the world's most famous public squares, the Red Square sits at the physical center of Moscow and is considered the symbolic center of all of Russia. Bluntly speaking, Red Square is a must ...