This series of pictures from 1915-1916 shows the daily lives and characters of the Romanov family and their closest circle. Tsar Nicholas II. / Getty Images The royal family shared an interest in ...

The triptych was purchased for the Louvre by the Society of Friends of the Louvre from the private collection of New York ...

Nicholas II was, as Mr. Hasegawa puts it ... dominoes,” ended the Romanov dynasty—not inherent flaws in the czar’s character, ...

When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad demise, and ... and it inevitably leads to dubiousness and mendacity. . . . He lacks a character and a real temperament. . . . His ...

Drawing on a wide array of Russian sources, Sebag Montefiore paints an unforgettable portrait of characters fascinating ... monk,” a favorite of Czar Nicholas II and his unbalanced wife ...

Hulton Archive//Getty Images Czar Nicholas II of Russia with his cousin ... “There was an ascetic aspect in Nicholas’s character, and even on winter nights he left the windows open," historian ...

What does an American director know about the character of Romanoff descendants? He can approximate. That’s the extent of it. Of the four daughters of Czar Nicholas II, my grandfather preferred ...

History records that Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia ... fatally so — is any sense of music defining personality, character or motivation. The dense, tuneless, pseudo-high-Russian-romantic ...

That's a conclusion endorsed by a Russian lawmaker trying to quash the release of an upcoming biopic focused on a love affair between the future Tsar Nicholas II and a teenaged ballet dancer.

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 ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...