Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to | dHNfWVp3OFpJTHREUmc ...

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 ...

Tsar Nicholas left the capital with his soldiers, and Alexandra assumed control. However, it was Rasputin who, in effect, held the power and made all the decisions.

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 ...

This first episode reveals the obstacles Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra overcame during what was a rather unconventional start to their Royal relationship. But having survived the ...

Meeting his nephew Tsar Nicholas II at Reval (now Tallinn in Estonia), the King and his wife Queen Alexandra arrived on the royal yacht, the Victoria and Albert.

Tsar Nicholas II and his family were denied exile in Britain, ... In 1894, Nicholas married Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess Alix of Hesse, who was Queen Victoria’s favourite granddaughter.

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, ...

15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. ... His wife Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maira, ...

15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. ... His wife Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maira, Anastasia and Alexie were also shot ...