The Coronation of Emperor Nicholas II in the Assumption Cathedral mb-code 1238371 William Curtis

William Curtis

a wholesale clothier and woollen merchant

on the wall of a house in Warwick Lane

looking north-east

Tower Bridge with bascules closed and barges passing under at high water

The Coronation of Emperor Nicholas II in the Assumption Cathedral mb-code 1238371 William Curtis'The Coronation of Emperor Nicholas II in the Assumption Cathedral', 1896. Nicholas (1868 1918) came to the throne after the death of his father, Alexander III. The last Tsar of Russia, he abdicated in 1917 after the Russian Revolution and was murdered by the Bolsheviks the following year. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.