The Last Tsar, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa ... however familiar from Robert K Massie’s classic 1967 biography, Nicholas and Alexandra – is mesmerising, and Hasegawa is master of all its broader ...

Russia's Czar Nicholas II meets and marries the German Princess Alexandra, but their union causes tension with the disapproving Russian populace in this portrait of the country's last royal family.

The Last Tsar, nothing could be further from the truth. 1 Wise, or even mediocre, leadership could have preserved the monarchy and saved Russia from the disasters following its collapse. Unfortunately ...

The last tsar ... though Nicholas II himself was less than one-hundredth-part Russian due to generations of Romanovs marrying other Western royal families. His wife Empress Alexandra was part ...

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

Having been raised in piety, Tsar Nicholas ever sought to rule in a spirit consonant with the precepts of Orthodoxy and the best traditions of his nation. Tsaritsa Alexandra, a grand-daughter of Queen ...

Russia's biggest cinema chain has cancelled screenings of a controversial film about the love life of the last tsar Nicholas II after ... cinema chain's spokeswoman Alexandra Artamonova told ...

John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on March 2, 1855, his son, Alexander II, succeeded him on the throne. Here Alexander is shown inheriting the war started by his ...

The Romanov dynasty, and most notably the reign of Tsar Nicholas II ... the youngest daughter of Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, pictured. Though it was true that precious jewels had been ...

Tsar Nicholas ll and his family were killed by Bolsheviks in July 1918, the year after the Russian Revolution. The royal family had visited the island in 1909 and had watched the Cowes Week ...