A few years ago, I fell into reading Robert Massie’s “Nicholas and Alexandra,” a history of the courtship and rule of the Tsar and his wife. It was impossible to put down. I never took ...

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 ...

The last tsar of the previous dynasty ... many powerful Romanovs were assassinated, including Nicholas, Alexandra, their children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei.

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.

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

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...

The entire royal family, which included Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna ... and proved all bodies were that of the Tsar, Tsarina and all their children.