He knew how [Czar] Alexander ... The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution, that Nicholas never expressed personal regret for his loss of power, focusing instead on the ...

One hundred years ago today, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks took power in Russia, only eight months after Czar Nicholas II had abdicated the throne amid a popular uprising and soldier mutiny.

The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s ... as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov ...