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

Double-sided painting of October Revolution leader and the tsar he deposed has "no historical parallels." A portrait of Tsar Nicholas II was discovered during the restoration of a full-size ...

Since the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II, he can also be ... gifts and awards given by the Tsar; as well as for buying books, magazines, and works of art. Nicholas never carried ...

For what is art if not a window into another's mind? For Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III and mother of the last tsar, Nicholas II, painting was a lifelong pursuit. Born as the ...

Tsar Nicholas II’s favorite palace—the home to which he retreated after he abdicated the throne—was one of the Romanov’s most beloved residences. Its rooms were filled with books ...

But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...