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W ha t’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...

While the Great War — the first World War — was still raging across Europe, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne on March 15, 1917. This was in response to a public uprising, the February ...

In his newly released book, “The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs" (Basic Books), authorTsuyoshi Hasegawa, an emeritus professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, ...

In his newly released book, “The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs” (Basic Books), author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, an emeritus professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, ...

However, in 1909, Czar Nicholas II, his family and their entourage traveled on the imperial yacht Standart to the Isle of Wight, where they stayed for several days.