But when Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, came to the throne ... In the meantime, the plain white army uniforms and caps of the previous reign were retained, with disastrous results: When ...

FOR more than a hundred years the haunting image of the last Tsar, in Scottish regalia, has hung in an officers' mess in Edinburgh Castle. Now the portrait of Nicholas II, who was murdered by the ...

When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad demise, and ... When World War I broke out, Russia, with the world’s largest army, turned out to be woefully unprepared. For one thing, ...

Russian history suggests that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s recent coup signals the onset of the endgame for President Vladimir Putin’s regime. Czar Nicholas II crushed an attempted mutiny in 1905 but ...

army deserters, and white-collar workers joining in the dissent. The already-divided Russian government increased their infighting and turned on Tsar Nicholas II. On 15 March, he abdicated the ...