It was a tradition for the Russian nobility to travel to foreign countries in one’s youth. In 1890-1891, Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, the would-be Nicholas II, went to the East.

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 ...

But as Putin’s effort to conquer parts of Ukraine slogs into its sixth month, some historians feel he more closely resembles Nicholas II, whose 1904-1905 war against Japan was an unmitigated ...

Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, ... During a visit to Japan in 1891, he visited a well-known hermit monk named Terakuto who claimed to see into the future.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nicholas II was, as Mr. Hasegawa puts it, the most “inadequate ruler in all of Europe,” but he still saw it as his duty to uphold “the sanctity of autocracy.” ...