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Nicholas II

1868-1918.

The last czar of Russia (1894-1917), whose reign was marked by defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), the 1905 Revolution, the influence of Rasputin, involvement in World War I, and governmental incompetence, all of which helped precipitate the Revolution of 1917. After he was forced to abdicate, he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

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Nicholas II

(Biography) 1868–1918, tsar of Russia (1894–1917). After the disastrous Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), he was forced to summon a representative assembly, but his continued autocracy and incompetence precipitated the Russian Revolution (1917): he abdicated and was shot

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Nicholas II - the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution; he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks (1868-1918)

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1918: The last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, was murdered by the Bolsheviks along with his entire family in the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg.

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historians, writers and thinkers in this documentary offer a different take on the man who has over the decades has been described as a "mad monk" and (by Boney M again) 'Russia's greatest love machine.'" What experts, including helen Rappaport and Dominic Lieven, can agree on is that Grigori Rasputin was a siberian faith healer who rose from obscurity to become an adviser to Tsar nicholas II and his family before being assassinated in December ,1916.