In the darkest days of the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, when all talk of the Romanovs was punishable at the very least by banishment to Serbia, a group of archivists were exempt. They sorted and filed the thousands of letters and photographs of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra (a granddaughter of Queen Victoria), ...
Nicholas II, the last tsar of all the Russians, remains a haunting and enigmatic figure, surrounded by myth and speculation. As a young man he dreamed of travel, of seeing the world, until forced by his father's death and a strong sense of duty into a role he did not want and for which he was ill-equipped. Dominated by his wife, Alexandra, herself ...
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P.-J. Stahl, Bertall, Jean-Jules-Henry Geoffroy, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, Grand Duchess Anastasiia Nikolaevna, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, Israel Perlstein, Russian Imperial Collection (Library of...
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