my grandmother was tsar nicholas ii's sister, and my father was tsar nicholas ii's eldest nephew.dored him and he travelled a lot with the tsarina and with the tsar, and was very close with the girls. they used to have cycle races and pony races up and down the palaces. the russian territories were vast and they were incredibly powerful. also, nicholas was the head of the church. already, there were bolshevik movements, and the russian royal family were not as powerful as they were, say, in 1900. 0n march15, 1917, tsar nicholas ii, supreme ruler of all the russias, was forced to abdicate in the face of political and economic pressure, that lead in the end to total revolution. nicholas and his family were taken to tobolsk, where they were held, and from tobolsk, they went to ekaterinburg, which is where they were eventually murdered. i think that the bolsheviks feared that if he was on the throne, he might have more influence than they would like him to have. his memory is honoured here, but during his lifetime, the tsar was accused of being both weak and inconsistent, stubbornly c

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