Their lives aren’t quite their own: unless they succumb to the self-destruction of abdication ... The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs.

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of ...

This is why I was uncertain about launching myself into historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's newly published book, The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs. As despotic and ...

Nicholas II ascended to the throne after his fatherÍs ... Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an end with Nicholas IIÍs abdication in 1917. After the Bolshevik Party came to power ...

This all changed in 1917 with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the overthrow of the Tsarist regime. In February 1917, the Imperial Porcelain Factory became the State Porcelain Factory.