Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas de Nice

This guide to the Cathedrale Saint-Nicolas de Nice traces one death that shaped this ground: a doctor's promise beside a dying twenty-one-year-old heir to the Russian throne, who came to Nice chasing a cure for weak lungs in 1865. You'll hear how his grieving parents marked the spot where he died with a small chapel, and how his nephew, Tsar Nicholas the Second, later replaced it with something far grander. The threads run through two Russian rulers and one young man's search for healing in the sun.