The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia ... devoted to his family. But he was cursed with an unshakeable belief ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of railroads that ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family were shot in Yekaterinburg in 1918 MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church community has some questions about the results of the examinations as ...

Yet for 90 years, Briton Nicholas ... in Russia - was officially branded an 'enemy of the people'. As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he ...

protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of the Russian monarchy.

Tsar Nicholas II makes a public address on ... along with his family. More than 300 years of Romanov rule over Russia was at an end. Soon a full-blown mutiny had swept through the troops of ...

The reasons for the summary and unexpected transference of the ex-Tsar and his family ... It was a second Russian Revolution, which left Nicholas Romanov and his family in the hands of his most ...

Public Domain The Russian Imperial Family on the steps of the Catherine ... The victims were the former Tsar, Nicholas II, his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four loyal servants.

The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and German-born Alexandra ... The great beauty of the family, Tatiana’s chiselled features closely resembled those of her mother.

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate ... the religious needs of the city's growing Russian population. The church's onion domes, bright colors and ...

In 1894 Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia. Along with his German-born wife ... They were often drawn from the members of the Royal family or nobility. The civil service helped the Tsar run the Russian ...