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 ... It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman), their daughters, their ...

Alexandra, too, was the target of assassination plots, launched “not by bomb-throwing terrorists but by relatives of her husband.” Mr. Hasegawa notes that Nicholas II wasn’t always weak-willed.

The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. Alexandra was not hugely popular in Russia. She was reserved and awkward in public. More importantly ...

Aristocrats plotted to kill the Siberian peasant, who wielded undue influence over Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. But the conspiracy backfired, hastening the coming Russian Revolution The ...

was Alexandra’s grandmother – she looked to him as the only hope of saving little Alexei’s life. Even mad monks are occasionally right. It was Rasputin who warned Nicholas II not to declare ...