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Nicholas II

tsar of Russia
Also known as: Nikolay Aleksandrovich
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John L.H. Keep
Emeritus Professor of Russian History, University of Toronto. Author of The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization.
John L.H. Keep
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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...

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