Professor Emeritus Tsuyoshi Hasegawa on 'The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs' ...
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, and there is no evidence that he relished a position he inherited ...
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 ...
The Empire did not have an elected parliament (until 1905) and there were no elections for positions in the government. There were no legal or constitutional methods by which Tsarist power could ...
John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on March 2, 1855, his son, Alexander II, succeeded him on the throne. Here Alexander is shown inheriting the war started by his ...