He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia ... obsessive about protocol, Nicholas would have been happier as a country squire, devoted to his family. But he was cursed with an unshakeable ...
By 1908, seven years after arriving in Russia as a 25-year-old, he was tutor to the five children of Tsar Nicholas II. He would stay with the family even after the tsar was overthrown and the ...
The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I has led a mass at the site of a basement room in the former mansion of engineer Nikolai Ipatyev in Yekaterinburg where the last Russian Czar ...
MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. Kremlin does not comment on the probe investigating whether the murder of last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family members was ritual, Russian Presidential ...
Portrait of Czar Nicholas I in The Illustrated London News. This formal portrait provides a sharp contrast to the way Czar Nicholas I was depicted in the satirical press. Richard Cobden, a leading ...
When other prominent Romanovs pointed to the damage Rasputin was causing the family, Nicholas exiled them from the capital. The tsar refused to recognize that when all power is placed in the hands of ...
closely narrates the tumultuous backdrop and captivating personalities of the last tsar’s undoing — Nicholas and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. An expert on modern Russian/Soviet ...