His wife, Alexandra, was a “domineering coach ... Mr. Hasegawa reserves his harshest criticism for Nicholas II himself. The czar could not have done “a worse job as steward of the monarchy ...

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

The tragic story of Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), the last Czar of Russia ... look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman), their daughters, their only son ...

Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries overnight to July 17, 1918. Located at the site now is the altar of the lower ...

The last tsar of the previous dynasty ... The relationship of Nicholas II and Alexandra, their love and their final end, and the mystery surrounding the missing children has inspired novels ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. Alexandra was not hugely popular in Russia.

The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of ...

MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in 1918 had no justification, describing it as a monstrous crime rather than ...

This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in ... Most famously of all, his uxorious dependence on Alexandra gave outsized influence to the mystical monk Rasputin, whom she adored because ...