“The Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh ... All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived ...
The Romanov family was popular with all classes of people, including the lower ranks of the gentry and city dwellers, though the new tsar was only 17 at the time of his coronation and without any ...
Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age, late Tsar of All the Russias, carrying in his arms 2. The Tsarevitch, Alexis, a boy, of fourteen years, heir to the throne; 3. , Alexandra Feodorovna ...
Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs.
The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of ...