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| | Nicholas II of Russia |
 | | The son of Russian Tsar Alexander III and Empress Marie Romanova (born Princess Dagmar of Denmark), he was the grandson of Christian IX of Denmark through his mother, and of Tsar Alexander II through his father. |
 | | Married in 1894 to Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt (henceforth Empress Alexandra Romanova), a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, he was father to Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei. |
 | | Nicholas, Alexandra, and their five children remained in the royal residence The Alexander Palace[?], with decreasing staff until they were moved to Tobolsk[?] in Siberia in August 1917, an effort by the struggling Kerensky government to keep them safer than was possible in Tsarskoe Selo[?]. |
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