The Last of the Tsars
Revealing the kind of ruler Nicholas II believed himself to be: Read an excerpt from Last of the Tsars
A short, slight man, Nicholas had succeeded his huge bear of a father, Alexander III, in 1894.
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution – a masterful study of a man entirely out of his depth
Last of the Tsars by Robert Service – a riveting account of the last 18 months of Tsar Nicholas II’s life and reign from one of the finest historians of Russia.