It’s 1894, the previous Tzar had just died and it’s time for a new one to be crowned. Nicholas II was crowned that year as Tzar of Russia. He was one of the worst leaders of the modern era. He was not ...

Nicholas II’s rule over Imperial Russia collapsed through a series of avoidable decisions. This documentary looks at how his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the first episode of The Last Czars, a new docuseries about the end of the Romanov dynasty, there's a scene where the camera ...

A 1904 print shows sailors from the Japanese torpedo boat, Sazanami, boarding a Russian torpedo boat during a sea battle off Port Arthur, Manchuria, during the Russo-Japanese war. (Ryōzō ...

Ocean X recovered 900 bottles of alcohol from a 102-year-old shipwreck. Ocean X Ocean explorers have salvaged 900 bottles of booze from a ship sunk in the Baltic Sea while on its way to restock Tsar ...

The fall of ancient dynasties still shake the ground on which we walk, making Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's The Last Tsar more relevant than one might think. The French Revolution spawned a critic, Edmund Burke ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Obverse Image: Portrait of Nicholas ...