How does the fortune of the last Tsar compare to the owner of Amazon.com? Since the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II, he can also be named “the richest saint in history.” ...

15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. As Women’s History Month continues, we look at how Tsar Nicholas II of Russia’s abdication on ...

Nicholas II, who had been visiting military headquarters ... as Teddy Roosevelt would have done, he would still be Czar of Russia.” The centennial of the Russian Revolution has brought great ...

Getty Images The last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, abdicated 100 years ago on March 15, 1917. RBTH has compiled the reactions of his contemporaries to this landmark event in Russian history.

The tsar-worshipper ideology is simple as it is attractive: the supposedly peace-loving Nicholas II sacrificed himself and his family to atone for the sins of the entire Russian nation.

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

Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and five children were canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000 for "putting moral ideas above their crown." Americans may be perplexed by this because ...

The Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II, Lenin, and the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025 The film discusses the importance of civil defense in the ...

Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until ...

All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a ...