The last Russian tsar Nicholas II wasn`t an exception. His father, Alexander III, died in 1894 but Nicholas was crowned two years later, on 26 May 1896.

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 ...

Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were first cousins. In 1918, Ipatiev House was turned into a fortified prison for ex-Tsar Nicholas II and his family. As the ill-fated ...