Nicholas II

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Nicholas II

1868–1918, tsar of Russia (1894–1917). After the disastrous Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), he was forced to summon a representative assembly, but his continued autocracy and incompetence precipitated the Russian Revolution (1917): he abdicated and was shot

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Czar Nicholas II of Russia was a cousin by marriage: His wife, Alexandra, was one of Victoria’s granddaughters.

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Sevastopol was a preferred holiday destination for Nicholas II, the last Russian czar, and his family.

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These include the identification of two children of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian Empire, from remains discovered in 2007.

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So Maria got permission from Czar Nicholas II to form her own regiment composed entirely of women.

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Russia’s last czar, Nicholas II, had been killed along with his family four years earlier.

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