Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

Although neither man could know it at the time, Tsar Nicholas II’s parting words to Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić on February 2, 1914, with a message for Serbia’s King Peter ...

From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...

This is how Russian Emperor Nicholas II reacted to troubling news delivered by Chairman of the State Duma Mikhail Rodzianko, who on Feb. 26, according to the Old Style calendar (March 11 ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...

Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...

For the last of these shows, he brings Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943) to life, and for the first time, shares the stage with actor Jonathan Silvestri as Tsar Nicholas II. Felder once more ...

South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, rejects the argument that Russian imperialism was unsalvageable in the face of pressure from the modernising ...