Dr. Tony Donaldson revisits a forgotten episode in Sri Lanka’s history when Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, spent 12 unforgettable days in Ceylon The final years of Tsarist Russia were ...

Tsar Nicholas II was the son of Alexander III, who had reposed in the arms of Saint John of Kronstadt. Having been raised in piety, Tsar Nicholas ever sought to rule in a spirit consonant with the ...

The images were brought back to England by Charles Sydney Gibbes - tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II - whose unique access to the Romanovs helped him to picture them in unguarded and ...

The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs” by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.

But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...

this tells the “definitive” story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, and poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy on the part of Tsar Nicholas II.

Professor Emeritus Tsuyoshi Hasegawa on 'The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs' ...