The Sunday Times13y
The ballerina and the visit of Nicholas II to Ceylon
Dr. Tony Donaldson revisits a forgotten episode in Sri Lanka’s history when Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, spent 12 unforgettable days in Ceylon The final years of Tsarist Russia were ...
Sydney Morning Herald6d
Was it a series of bad decisions that brought down the Romanovs?
Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in 1918.Credit: Alamy/File Hasegawa paints a convincing portrait of Nicholas as not only uninterested but way out of his depth as regards ...
PBS7y
A ROMANOV ALBUM
Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...
Mental Floss11y
Russian Tsar Vows “We Shall Do Everything” for Serbia
Although neither man could know it at the time, Tsar Nicholas II’s parting words to Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić on February 2, 1914, with a message for Serbia’s King Peter ...