Was it a series of bad decisions that brought down the Romanovs?
Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...
Would You Drive Across the Sahara in a 1922 Citroën on Tracks?
Attempts to tame the Sahara Desert spawned some seriously cool, strange, and innovative vehicles during the 20th century.
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Patriarch Kirill leads prayer at site of execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family
Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries overnight to July 17, 1918. Located at the site now is the altar of the lower ...
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‘The Last Tsar’ Review: The Romanovs Reconsidered
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.” ...
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Faithful British servant murdered by the Bolsheviks alongside 'last tsar of Russia' has his name cleared
As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...
‘Bronshtein in the Bronx’ Review: A Tall Trotsky Tale
The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...
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Book Review: ‘Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers,’ by Anne Somerset, and ‘Q: A Voyage Around the Queen,’ by Craig Brown
Funnily enough, no one has asked me this recently. An earlier version of this article misstated the relationship between Czar Nicholas II and Queen Victoria. Nicholas was married to Alexandra ...
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Was it a series of bad decisions that brought down the Romanovs?
Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in 1918.Credit: Alamy/File Hasegawa paints a convincing portrait of Nicholas as not only uninterested but way out of his depth as regards ...