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 ...

In the space of a generation, a 1,400-year-old empire went from its geographical maximum to non-existence, a stunning pace of collapse that makes the fall of the Roman Empire look positively glacial ...

Tsarevitch Nicholas II at the time of his visit to Asia in 1891 His trip to Ceylon was part ... Writing in the 1930s, Princess Catherine Radziwill, a member of an old noble Russian family, claims the ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively. He made poor decisions that led to worsening relations with the government and increased hardship for civilians and soldiers alike. Nicholas ...

Tsar Nicholas II was advised by Plehve, the Minister of the Interior, that a national victory would lessen the growing opposition to Tsarist rule. It was an opportunity to heighten patriotic ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man ... Twenty-five-year-old poet Alexander Briansky remembers the October Revolution and the ...

Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century. Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the ...