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.

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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.