“The Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh insights. Nicholas II was, as Mr. Hasegawa puts ... to tend to the royal family’s only son, the hemophiliac heir Alexei.

Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...

In 1894 Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia. Along with his German-born ... Nicholas II was also distracted by the illness facing his son, Alexei (the Tsarevitch), who was the heir to the throne.