The remains of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra have been exhumed as part of a Russian investigation into the Romanov royal family's murder. The couple and their children – Olga, Tatiana ...

But the story – however familiar from Robert K Massie’s classic 1967 biography, Nicholas and Alexandra – is mesmerising, and Hasegawa is master of all its broader historical implications ...

Seldom has a personal story been so closely interwoven with the course of history as that of the last family of Russian Tsars: the last Tsar and Tsarina, Nicholas II (1868-1918) and Alexandra ...

History records that Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, met his death — along with the Empress Alexandra and their five children — at the hands of a Bolshevik firing squad during the ...

Nicholas II, the last Czar of Russia, and his wife, Alexandra, did not.Their virtues were all private. They adored each other. They doted on their five children, ...

Grand Duchesses Maria, Tatiana, Anastasia and Olga, daughters of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova. George and Nicholas saw each other one more time.

But as Tsuyoshi Hasegawa stresses in his new study of Nicholas’s abdication, The Last Tsar, nothing could be further from the truth. 1 Wise, or even mediocre, leadership could have preserved the ...

All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a ...

Czar Nicholas took control of his military forces in 1915 during World War I and left the country’s affairs to Alexandra. As Alexandra’s advisor, ...

Lavish, Oscar-winning account of the Russian royal family's demise in the days leading up to the 1917 revolution. When Tsar Nicholas weds the German princess Alexandra, the marriage proves ...

Three generations and two royal families sit for a portrait on the Isle of Wight in 1909. From left, the future Edward VIII, Mary, his mother and the future Queen of England; Alexandra, Queen of Great ...

Nicholas, Alexandra, and their children were imprisoned by Russia’s provisional government and exiled, first to Siberia and then to Yekaterinburg. The entire family would be murdered there in ...