“The Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh insights. Nicholas II was ... illegal abdication to his brother Mikhail rather than to the rightful heir, 12-year-old Alexei, with Mikhail ...

The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and German-born Alexandra ... story of their parents and tragic haemophiliac brother Alexey. Despite what portraits depict and the sisters ...

MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in 1918 had no justification, describing it as a monstrous crime rather than ...

The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...