In 1917, the British king George V (1865-1936) decided to break relations with his two cousins, German Emperor Wilhelm II (1859-1941) and Russian Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918).

1 Nicholas II and his wife, ... 2 Tsar Nicholas II wading on the rocky shore of Finland. After the early death of his father, he confided to a friend, "I am not yet ready to be tsar.

The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia, and there is no evidence that he relished a position he inherited ...

But as Tsuyoshi Hasegawa stresses in his new study of Nicholas’s abdication, The Last Tsar, nothing could be further from the truth. 1 Wise, or even mediocre, leadership could have preserved the ...

That very morning, the Russian Imperial family—41-year-old Nicholas, his wife, 37-year-old Czarina Alexandra, and five children, ranging from 13-year-old Olga to the 5-year-old Tsarevich Alexei ...

The canonisation of Tsar Nicholas II and his family by the Russian Orthodox Church comes amid growing popular nostalgia for the Romanov family, who were slain by Bolsheviks 82 years ago. Increasing ...

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, ca. 1898. Photo: Heritage Images/Getty Images More than a century after the Russian Revolution, the downfall of the Romanov dynasty continues to fascinate and enthrall.