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CZAR NICHOLAS ll

Nicholas II : his true name is Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov (18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. Hisofficial title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russian and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until hisabdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Critics nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because ofthe Khodynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, the anti-Semitic pogroms, his execution of political opponents, and his pursuit of military campaigns on a hitherto unprecedented scale. Under his rule, Russiawas defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, including the almost total annihilation of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. As head of state, he approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914,which marked the beginning of Russia's involvement in World War I, a war in which 3.3 million Russians would be killed The unpopularity of the Russian involvement in this war is often cited as a leadingcause of the fall of the Romanov dynasty less than three years later.
Nicholas was increasingly insulated from events by his wife, Alexandra.Tsarina Alexandra, a well-educated German-born princess,had fallen under the influence of Rasputin, a Siberian peasant whom the tsarina regarded as a holy man because he alone seemed able to stop the bleeding of her hemophiliac son, Alexis. Rasputin’sinfluence made him a power behind the throne, and he did not hesitate to interfere in government affairs. As the leadership at the top experienced a series of military and economic disaster, the middleclass, aristocrats, peasants, soldiers, and workers grew more and more disenchanted with tsarist regime. Even conservative aristocrats who supported the monarchy felt the need to do something to...