He knew how [Czar ... Nicholas’s abdication was an opportunity to bring a permanent end to Czarist rule. , Nicholas inserted a provision into the abdication manifesto to leave the throne ...

Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II Romanov (1868-1918 ... State Duma Deputy Karaulov: Emperor Nicholas II abdicated the throne in favor of Mikhail Alexandrovich. Mikhail Alexandrovich, in ...

In his newly released book, “The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs” (Basic Books), author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, an emeritus professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, ...

When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad demise ... the family man Nicholas decided to abdicate not only for himself but also on behalf of his son and pass the throne directly ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last ...

The already-divided Russian government increased their infighting and turned on Tsar Nicholas II. On 15 March, he abdicated the throne and his decision brought to an end over 300 years of rule by ...

On March 15, 1917, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the throne of Russia, ending its succession of autocratic rulers. But in an unlikely turn of events, the term “czar” carried on in, of all places ...

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

After the disorders of 1905, Tsar Nicholas II had left Petrograd ... he handed them the Act of Abdication in which he renounced for himself and his son the throne of Russia in favor of his brother ...

Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were ... Following the tsar's abdication in March 1917—and the family's hopes of going into exile in Britain dashed when King George ...