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  Nicholas II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas was the eldest son of Emperor Alexander III and his Empress Maria Fyodorovna (born Princess Dagmar of Denmark).
Nicholas fell in love with Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, a daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.
Nicholas, feeling that it was his duty, and that his personal presence would inspire his troops, decided to lead his army directly, assuming the role of commander-in-chief after dismissing his uncle from that position, the highly respected and experienced Nikolai Nikolaevich (September 1915) following the loss of the Russian Kingdom of Poland.
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Marie of Hesse Princess Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and the Rhine (8 August 1824-8 June 1880) was a princess of Grand Ducal Hesse and, as Marie Alexandrovna, Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia.
Tsarevich Alexei (1904-1918) Tsesarevich (Tsarevich) Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia (In Russian Царевич Алексей Николаевич) (August 12, 1904 - July 17, 1918), of the House of Romanov, was a Tsarevich of Russia and was the youngest child of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hesse.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaevich Romanov (6 November 1856 - 5 January 1929) was a Russian general in World War I. A grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I, he was commander in chief of the Russian armies on the main front in the first year of the war, and was later a...
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 Nicholas II, czar of Russia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Nicholas was educated by private tutors and the reactionary Pobyedonostzev.
In foreign affairs, Nicholas initiated the first of the Hague Conferences and supported an aggressive policy in E Asia.
The advance, in July, 1918, of counterrevolutionary forces caused the soviet of Yekaterinburg to fear that Nicholas might be liberated; after a secret meeting a death sentence was passed on the czar and his family, who were shot along with their remaining servants in a cellar at Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16.
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 the last czar of russia
The Russian Orthodox Church is to canonise Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, his wife and five children, it was announced on Monday.
Nicholas II, 1868–1918, last czar of Russia (1894–1917), son of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna.
Russia's Last Czar to be Sainted for 'Humility' of his Death, but not for his Life Nicholas II and family part of 1 100 canonized for martyrdom by communists.
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 Nicholas I, czar of Russia
Nicholas strove to serve his country's best interests as he saw them, but his methods were dictatorial, paternalistic, and often inadequate.
The motto “autocracy, orthodoxy, and nationality,” expressing the principles applied to a new system of education, was also used by Nicholas in suppressing liberal thought, controlling the universities, increasing censorship, persecuting religious and national minorities, and strengthening the secret police.
Under Nicholas, Russia gained control of part of Armenia and the Caspian Sea after a war with Persia (1826–28).
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