Nicholas ii brief biography of thomas
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What happens when an emperor doesn’t want to be an emperor? That was true for Nicholas II of Russia, the last ruler of the 300-year-long Romanov dynasty and the subject of the exhibition “The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II,” organized by the Georgia Museum of Art and on view through March 17.
The museum has been building a collection of Russian art for several years and has developed several exhibitions from the gifts that make up that collection. The majority of objects in The Reluctant Autocrat come from the Parker Collection, assembled over more than four decades and including more than 2,200 separate objects.
Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of Russian Art at the museum and professor of art history at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, focused this exhibition on objects related to Nicholas II and his father, Alexander III. The year 2018 marks the centennial of the end of World War I and the fall of the Romanov dynasty during the Russian Revolution, which also meant the murder of Nicholas, his wife Alexandra and their five children. As such, it presents a unique opportunity to consider the relationship between the villains and heroes of history and the reality of their individual human lives.
Kirin tells the story of Nicholas’ life, from his childhood as tsare
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George Thomas (entrepreneur)
George Thomas was an African-American who found success in the Russian Empire during the reign of Nicholas II.
Thomas moved to St. Petersburg in 1890 to become a valet. The tsars had long hired black servants, and Afro-Russians could become extremely successful (see, for example Abram Petrovich Gannibal or Ira Aldridge). Thomas became an extremely rich and successful nightclub owner, theatrical producer, and more; he owned and ran the Aquarium, which boasted a theater, an amphitheater, back rooms, and so on.[1] As examples of his place in society, Thomas hosted men like Jimmy Winkfield,[2] had connections with the Tsar, and once introduced Jack Johnson to Rasputin.[3] Thomas adopted the Russian name of Fyodor.[4]
Thomas fled to Constantinople during the Russian Revolution but was never as rich and famous as he once had been.[citation needed]
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