The images were brought back to England by Charles Sydney Gibbes - tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II - whose unique access to the Romanovs helped him to picture them in unguarded and ...
Catherine II, or Catherine the Great , (ruled 1762 Ü1769) brought European neoclassical art and architecture ... through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 ...
Dr. Tony Donaldson revisits a forgotten episode in Sri Lanka’s history when Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, spent 12 unforgettable days in Ceylon The final years of Tsarist Russia were ...
But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...