Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until ...

Tsar Nicholas II, being the last reigning Emperor of Russia, ranks as a major historical figure. Yet in many histories of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Tsar is treated almost as a secondary ...

From the moment he was crowned Tsar, his reign was an utter catastrophe. Congress averts government shutdown after Senate passes spending bill Powerful Tugboats Pull Massive $13 Billion US ...

HISTORY The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Hachette, $34.99 Most historians find themselves in one of two diametrically opposed camps.

In his newly released book, “The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs” (Basic Books), author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, an emeritus professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, ...

A new book by UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor of history Tsuyoshi Hasegawa unpacks the abdication of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II and the fall of the Romanovs.

Verso of extremely fine-quality Caucasian shashka that belonged to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, given to him when he was Tsesarevich (heir apparent), possibly in 1888. Only royal sword ever offered ...

Russian history suggests that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s recent coup signals the onset of the endgame for President Vladimir Putin’s regime. Czar Nicholas II crushed an attempted mutiny in 1905 but ...

Czar Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, by nearly all accounts, was a decent fellow who had absolutely no business ruling an outhouse, much less the largest country in the world. He did as much ...