As it must to all men, death came, last week, to His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch of Russia, 72. at Cap d’Antibes, French Riviera, where he lay ill of pneumonia (TIME, Dec.
Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...