The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia ... His adored German-born wife Alexandra, Queen Victoria’s favourite ...

That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered ... of Romanovs marrying other Western royal families. His wife Empress Alexandra was part English, part German, and inherited from ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... The departure of Nicholas II to the front left his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. Alexandra was not hugely popular in Russia.

Tsar Alexander III of Russia sparked a royal tradition that would become one of the most opulent and iconic legacies in the history of art. He commissioned famed jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé to create a ...

The victims were the former Tsar, Nicholas II, his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four loyal servants. Rappaport, a British author who’s written extensively about the former ...

100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor ... troops and carriages, Nicholas II and his wife empress Alexandra Feodorovna ...