A few years ago, I fell into reading Robert Massie’s “Nicholas and Alexandra,” a history of the courtship and rule of the Tsar and his wife. It was impossible to put down. I never took ...

The tragic story of Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), the last Czar of Russia ... look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman), their daughters, their only son ...

Mikhail was awoken to become the first tsar of Russia ... The Provisional Government imprisoned Nicholas, Alexandra and their five children who were sent to a palace in Tobolsk where they were ...

The remains of Czar Nicholas and Czarina Alexandra were exhumed from their tombs in the Cathedral of St Peter and Paul in St Petersburg at the end of September. In October, Patriarch Kirill I ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family ... Most famously of all, his uxorious dependence on Alexandra gave outsized influence to the mystical monk Rasputin, whom she adored because, after conventional ...

The last tsar of the previous dynasty ... many powerful Romanovs were assassinated, including Nicholas, Alexandra, their children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei.

It's rare to read a biographical work whose author is so contemptuous of his subject as Hasegawa is of Nicholas. And yet the author, a specialist on 20th-century Russian history, seems even more ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. Alexandra was not hugely popular in Russia.

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...