It’s 1894, the previous Tzar had just died and it’s time for a new one to be crowned. Nicholas II was crowned that year as Tzar of Russia. He was one of the worst leaders of the modern era. He was not ...

King George V of Britain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia each possessed impeccable Vandyke beards; people had trouble telling the men apart. In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II had so elaborate a ...

One hundred years ago this week, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany exchanged a series of telegrams to try to stop the rush to a war that neither of them wanted. They signed ...

A letter arrives from the prime minister, informing the king that the government plans to send a ship to rescue Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family, but since the czar is the king’s ...

In that scorching summer, King George was a worried man. His Russian cousin, Czar Nicholas II, had recently lost his throne and was under house arrest. In Germany, another imperial cousin ...