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| | The Escape of Alexei. Son of Tsar Nicholas II |
 | | Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov (Nicholas II), the last Russian tsar, was born on May 6, 1868, the son of Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov (Emperor Alexander III) and Marie Feodorovna Dagmar (a Danish princess). |
 | | Nicholas ascended the throne on October 7, 1894, and was crowned on May 14, 1896. |
 | | Nicholas expected to arrive at Tsarskoe Selo on March 1 at three-thirty in the afternoon, but en route, at Malaya Vishera Station, it was discovered that the next large station, Lyuban, had already been occupied by revolutionary troops and that further passage by the imperial train would be dangerous. |
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