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Nicholas II

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Also known as: Nikolay Aleksandrovich
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Emeritus Professor of Russian History, University of Toronto. Author of The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization.
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Russian in full:
Nikolay Aleksandrovich
Born:
May 6 [May 18, New Style], 1868, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia
Died:
July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg (aged 50)
Title / Office:
tsar (1895-1917), Russia
emperor (1895-1917), Russia
Founder:
ITAR-TASS
House / Dynasty:
Romanov dynasty
Notable Family Members:
father Alexander III
daughter Anastasia
son Alexis
Role In:
October Manifesto
Russo-Japanese War
World War I
On the Web:
BBC Sounds - The History Hour - The Killing of the Russian Tsar (Dec. 20, 2024)
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Nicholas II (born May 6 [May 18, New Style], 1868, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg) was the last Russian emperor (1894–1917), who, with his wife, Alexandra, and their children, was killed by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. Nikolay Aleksandrovich was the eldest son and heir apparent (tsesarevich) of the tsarevitch Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (emperor as Alexander III from 1881) and his consort Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark). Succeeding his father on November 1, 1894, he was crowned tsar in Moscow on May 26, 1896. Neither by upbringing nor by temperament was Nicholas fitted ...(100 of 1578 words)

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