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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getty Images The last Russian tsar, Nicholas II ... occurred March 15, 1917. / Source: Getty Images "When signing the act of abdication, neither Nicholas II nor his entourage thought that the ...

28, 1914, from Tsar Nicholas II to his favorite uncle ... It was an unenviable task to wean the mighty empire off of its greatest source of revenue, even before the added expense of assembling ...

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 ...