How does the fortune of the last Tsar compare ... and friends. Nicholas II, his daughter Grand Princess Tatiana and friends after a tennis game From his private sources, Nicholas also funded ...

But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II ... Russian historians about Nicholas II’s ...

Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad demise, and, after the pitiful end of the ...

Tsar Nicholas II’s favorite palace—the home to which ... Nicholas had, in fact, made the palace his primary residence for exactly that reason shortly after the political uprisings of 1905 ...

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 ...

Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were first cousins. In 1918, Ipatiev House was turned into a fortified prison for ex-Tsar Nicholas II and his family. As the ill-fated ...