Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until ...

Abdication could have been a relief for Nicholas, who took the throne in 1894 after the death ... The five children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in a 1910 photo, eight years before war and ...

Latest news from the country confirms that the Tsar, Nicholas II, has abdicated his throne and a new Provisional Government has been established. That government has issued a statement that the ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...

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 ...

We explain the causes of Tsar Nicholas II's growing unpopularity - the role ... and the events on the streets of Petrograd that led to the Tsar's abdication. That summer Russia lurched from ...

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, ...

this tells the “definitive” story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, and poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy on the part of Tsar Nicholas II.

King George V appeared to regret not helping his cousin Tsar Nicholas II and his family escape Russia ... Nicholas was forced to abdicate for himself and his son, and the dynasty officially ...