On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of ...

whom Nicholas propped up as Interior Minister till the end of his reign. Nicholas II's story ends in July 1918, with the cold-blooded slaughter of his entire family by Bolshevik agents--including five ...