biography
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| (1868–1918)
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| biography:
| The last tsar of Russia (1895–1917), born near St Petersburg, NW Russia, the son of Alexander III. His reign was marked by the alliance with France (1894), an entente with Britain, a disastrous war with Japan (1904–5), and the establishment of the national assembly, or Duma (1906). When forced by the 1905 Revolution to accept a constitutional monarchy, he continued to believe that he was responsible only to God. He took command of the Russian armies against the Central Powers in 1915, leaving the government of the country to the empress Alexandra and Rasputin. His mismanagement of the war and government chaos led to his abdication in 1917, and subsequent imprisonment. In July 1918 the Bolsheviks moved him and his family to Siberia, where they were executed at Ekaterinburg. The Russian Orthodox Church bestowed sainthood on Nicholas, his wife and five children in 2000. |
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