Tsar nicholas ii

The Victorian era gave us many great inventions that we still use today - bicycles, Morse code, ice cream as we know it, and even the telephone. The era of Queen Victoria's reign, though, had some pretty bizarre happenings too. Such as ladies getting stuck in doorways because of their extra big dress skirts and constantly fainting as a result of very tight corsets. Also, the London fog did exist, and it comprised of nothing else than heavy pollution from coal mines and the city being in…

Russian artist Olga Shirnina (also known as 'klimbim') colors archive images of Romanov family.

You can learn about history from books, but that’s a long path, and quite likely not the one you took back in your school years. Or you did, and in that case, hats off to you!

Take a look back at Russia's last royal family with these rare pictures.

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Emperor Nicholas II with the dragon tattoo. The tattoo is a facsimile but it is the approximate shape and probably very similar to the one he had. I have no tattoos but if I were to get one it would probably be this.

The House of Romanov was the second dynasty, after the House of Rurik, to rule over Russia, and...

Tsar Nicholas II cigarette break

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