15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. As Women’s History Month continues, we look at how Tsar Nicholas II of Russia’s abdication on ...

Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II Romanov (1868-1918), the last emperor of Russia, reads the act of abdication to the messengers of Kerensky the Duma in its direct private wagon at Tsarskoye Selo.

Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, was a peculiar and quirky man who had a major dark side. 1. He was a passive student to a brilliant education . ...

The American ambassador to Russia, David R. Francis, had just been appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and did not speak any Russian, but he saw the Czar’s abdication as a chance for ...

Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution. The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg.

Russia has exhumed the remains of Czar Nicholas II and his wife in a bid to identify their missing children. Seven members of the Romanov family were killed in 1918, but only five were buried together ...

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 ...

In January 1917, Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia while Bolshevik Vladmir Lenin lived in exile. By October, revolution had reversed their roles, leaving the former tsar a prisoner and Lenin holding ...

Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and five children were canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000 for "putting moral ideas above their crown." Americans may be perplexed by this because ...

At that decadent court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, ... RUSSIA: New Tsar; RUSSIA: New Tsar. 3 minute read. TIME. April 19, 1926 12:00 AM GMT-5.

Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until ...