Why did the Japanese policeman attack Nicholas and was it really one of the reasons for the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905?

Vladimir Putin has compared himself to czarist predecessors like Peter the Great. But historians say he more closely resembles Nicholas II, whose war against Japan was a disaster.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

It all started on April 27, 1891, when Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich II — heir to the Russian throne then held by his father, Alexander III — stepped onto the docks at Nagasaki Bay. The ...

Hong Kong pop diva Faye Wong, 56, and her boyfriend, 45-year-old actor Nicholas Tse, were spotted traveling together from Beijing to Japan, a destination the couple frequently visits.

Nicholas soon had to sign a treaty giving the people more power, lessening his power. Nicholas finally abdicated his throne, giving the power to the Soviets. On July 16, 1918, Nicholas II was executed ...

His verdict is unambiguously damning. Since 1905 and the simultaneous Bloody Sunday massacre of peaceful protestors and loss of the war against Japan, Nicholas’s prestige had plummeted.

The dramatic end of Nicholas II’s reign in Russia was one of the turning points of the early 20th century. Could he have avoided his downfall?

An American bomb dropped on Japan during World War II recently exploded after lying dormant for roughly 80 years. The 500-pound bomb detonated on Wednesday at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern ...

A quarter century before his fateful encounter with the hail of Bolshevik bullets that killed him and his family in a Yekaterinburg basement in 1918, Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, was a tourist ...

Tsar Nicholas II was advised by Plehve, the Minister of the Interior, that a national victory would lessen the growing opposition to Tsarist rule. It was an opportunity to heighten patriotic ...