The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918 President Wilson Suffers a Stroke, 1919 Making Movies, 1920 Entering King Tut's Tomb, 1922 Coolidge Becomes President, 1923 Adolf Hitler Attempts a Coup, 1923 Air Conditioning Goes to the Movies, 1925 Prohibition, 1927 Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927 Babe Ruth Hits His 60th Home Run, 1927 The Wall Street Crash, 1929

Nicholas’ son, the crown prince, Alexei, was born with hemophilia. But the family kept his disease, which would cause him to bleed to death from a slight cut, a secret.

The following year, Nicholas II was officially crowned as the tsar of Russia. During a mobbed public celebration of the coronation near Moscow, thousands of people were stampeded to …

It was a tradition for the Russian nobility to travel to foreign countries in one’s youth. In 1890-1891, Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, the would-be Nicholas II, went to the East.

The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918. Also murdered that night were members of the …