Nicholas II held, evidently, the greatest responsibility for the collapse of the Romanov Empire in 1917, but not entirely. His main offence was himself, the fact that he was not suited for the position of tsar. However, many occurrences, such as Bloody Sunday, the damaging influence of Rasputin, his...

The Ruin of the Romanov RegencyThe Romanov family, a great and prestigious lineage, ruled over Russia from 1613 to 1917. Although it had, in the past, overcome all types of dilemmas, the Romanov family was to fall, at last, in 1917 with the resignation of Tsar Nicholas the Second.After the Russo-Jap...

In The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Robert K. Massie solves most of the mysteries surrounding the death of Tsar Nicholas II and his family and the testing to identify their bones. The author also discredits the large number of people who had come forward and proclaimed themselves the tsar's ch...

Folklores are tales shrouded in mystery and mysticism, often depicting a time and an era long since dead, but there is a story of a man, not to long ago which entertains all the traits of a tall tale. Nobody in recent Russian history commands as much villainy, sainthood and mystery as the char...

The Holy Devil"Few historians figures have been as shrouded in myth and speculation as Grigory Rasputin. At the height of his fame, he was though to be no less than a demonic figure, possessed of supernatural powers, dissolute agent of the forces of evil with an ironclad, perhaps sexual, hold on th...