This paper looks at how during most of Russia's
history, from the time of the later Middle Ages until 1917, the predominant ruler of this land was the
czar. It examines how beginning slowly with Alexander Nevsky and
ending swiftly and dramatically with Czar Nicholas II, how the history of the czars' is filled with triumph and defeat, jubilee and sadness, war and peace and most of all, never-ending change.