This video explores the life and reign of Tsar Nicholas II, Russia’s final monarch, and questions whether he was history’s worst ruler or a tragic victim of circumstance. It traces his transformation ...

After the 1905 revolution, Russia was supposed to reform. Instead, Tsar Nicholas II shut down his own parliament, jailed his critics, and drove away the very allies Russia needed to survive. Then he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were first cousins. In 1918, Ipatiev House was turned into a fortified prison for ex-Tsar Nicholas II and his family. As the ill-fated Russian ...

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 ...

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...