After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (another hotly debated subject—did he voluntarily ... In the midst of the oval there was traced with large letters the name ALEXANDER. “This oval rose in the ...

Their lives aren’t quite their own: unless they succumb to the self-destruction of abdication ... be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia ...

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of ...

The Alexander Palace was Nicholas II ... his abdication in February 1917 and through to the tragic interning in the West-Siberian city in Tobolsk on August 1 of the same year. The Czar’s ...