It was on 26 November (14 November O.S.) 1894 in the Grand Church of the Winter Palace that Tsar Nicholas II of Russia wed his German bride, Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (whose name was changed to Alexandra Feodorovna upon being received into the Russian Orthodox Church). However, it took some time for the marriage of [read more]
It was on 1 November (20 October O.S.) 1894 that the accession of Nicholas II took place in Russia upon the death of his 49-year-old father, Tsar Alexander III from kidney disease. Nicholas became Emperor of Russia at just 26-years-old. Nicholas was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox priest of his father on the evening of [read more]
Our Year of the Last Romanovs series continues with the transfer to Yekaterinburg. It was 1917, and Tsar Nicholas II was no longer on the throne. After being under house arrest, the family, who had been put on soldier’s rations, was moved from Tobolsk to the city of Yekaterinburg (also called Ekaterinburg) the following year after the Bolsheviks [read more]
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