George V's guilt after refusing cousin Nicholas II asylum — 'those poor innocent children' Tsar Nicholas II and his family were denied exile in Britain, said to have been in part due to the fear ...

Tsar Nicholas II was the cousin of King George V, who was the Queen’s grandfather. George V’s mother was Alexandra Princess of Wales, the sister of Nicholas’ mother, Dagmar of Denmark.

KING George V has been revealed as a key architect in the demise of his cousin Tsar Nicholas II of Russia at the height of the Russian revolution, after failing to provide asylum to the Russian ...

Hasegawa’s story ends tantalisingly, with the arrest of Nicholas and Alexandra, and their vain hope of sanctuary with Nicholas’s cousin George V in Britain. It was not to be.

Gary Saul Morson on “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs” by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.

Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II Romanov (1868-1918), the last emperor of Russia, reads the act of abdication to the messengers of Kerensky the Duma in its direct private wagon at Tsarskoye ...

Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the third royal cousin, known in the family as Nicky, would arrive from Russia the next day. Between them Georgie, Willy and Nicky ruled more than half the world.

In his newly released book, “The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs” (Basic Books), author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, an emeritus professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, ...

Emperor Meiji expressed hope that Nicholas would not be offended and would continue his visit to Japan. Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg, Alexander III decided to stop the journey immediately.

The family members of Nicholas II, Russia's last tsar, were executed in July 1918, soon after the Bolshevik Revolution—and the speculation as to what exactly happened hasn't died Continue reading » ...