Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia. He inherited the throne in 1894 when his father Tsar Alexander III died. Known as Tsar Nicholas II he reigned as Emperor of Russia for 23 years. He was forced to abdicate in 1917 following the Russian Revolution. The Romanov dynasty, which had ruled Russia for three centuries had come to an end.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was born in Saint Petersburg in 1868. He was crowned Tsar of Russia on May 26th 1896. Frequent unrest occurred during his reign and there was violent suppression of the 1905 revolution. He was seen as a weak and incompetent leader. Russia was defeated by the Empire of Japan in 1905 and over 3 million Russian people died in World War I.
Following his abdication in 1917 Nicholas II and his family were arrested. They were imprisoned in the town of Tobolsk east of the Ural Mountains. The family was moved 600km to the town of Yekaterinburg in April 1918. On July 17th 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
Nicholas II became the new (and last) Tsar of Russia following the death of his father, Alexander III in the year 1894 On This Day.
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Tsar Nicholas II