Tsar Nicholas II makes a public address on July 20 ... St. Petersburg (then called Petrograd), was left in Aleksandra's hands. Her "spiritual adviser" was the Siberian mystic Grigory Rasputin ...

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively ... It was not publicly known but Alexis suffered from the blood disease haemophilia. After Alexei recovered, Tsarina Alexandra became convinced ...

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 ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man, answerable only to God, who rules more than 170 million people. The Tsar's armies have grown ...

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 ...

The play takes place in a time of vicious upheaval in Russian culture. Tsar Nicholas II was the last of Russian royalty, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Rachmaninoff, also of noble birth, escaped ...