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The Tsar Who Ignored Everyone: The Decisions That Lit the Fuse for World War I
After the 1905 revolution, Russia was supposed to reform. Instead, Tsar Nicholas II shut down his own parliament, jailed his ...
The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...
On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and ...
On The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise ...
More than a century after the Russian Revolution, the downfall of the Romanov dynasty continues to fascinate and enthrall. The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is ...
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How Tsar Nicholas II Lost Control of His Own Empire
He was supposed to rule Russia with absolute power. Instead, millions of starving workers, brutal factory conditions, and one ...
Rachmaninoff and the Tsar follows the renowned composer Sergei Rachmaninoff as he navigates life after escaping Russia during the 1917 revolution. Longing for his homeland and haunted by memories of ...
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