The information that has emerged since the fall of the Soviet Union has improved the reputation of the Romanovs, I think.
Fun fact: Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, a first cousin of Czar Nicholas’s, was a long-time boyfriend of the designer Coco Chanel. He was one of the noblemen who murdered Grigory Rasputin.
I am fascinated by that era of history...have you read “Nicholas and Alexandra”? It has a lot of his and “Sunny’s” personal correspondence and is quite insightful.