Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in ... after conventional medical science had been unable to improve her haemophiliac son’s condition – Queen Victoria, who carried the ...

“The Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh insights. Nicholas II was, as Mr ... in 1905 to tend to the royal family’s only son, the hemophiliac heir Alexei. Alexandra would ...

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.

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 ...