“What will happen to me and all of Russia? I’m not prepared to be a Czar, I never wanted to become one, I know nothing of the business of ruling. I don’t know how to carry out the duties.” (Nicholas ...
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The decisions that pulled Russia into World War I
A few rushed orders set Europe on a path to disaster. This story examines how Tsar Nicholas II’s hesitation, confused ...
Servicemen of the Wagner Group military company sit atop a tank as civilians pose for a photo at the headquarters of the Southern Military District in a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June ...
At that decadent court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, another and a towering Nicholas always strode with head erect. Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the ...
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Russia: The Vulnerable Sick Man of Eurasia
Popular history credits Russian Czar Nicholas I with describing 19th-century Ottoman Turkey as "The Sick Man of Europe." British envoy Sir George Hamilton's full quote lacks the headline's memorable ...
The Louvre Museum recently acquired a 19th century triptych created by the House of Fabergé and presented as a gift to Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra for the birth of their first ...
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