It was WWI when Czar Nicholas II of Russia was overthrown. The year, 1917. the following year, he and his entire family were assassinated.
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Russia was taken out of World War One by Lenin and his agreement with Germany to end Russia's participation in the war. The assassination of Czar Nicholas II and his family had nothing to do with Russia's end as a player in WW 1.
getting overthrown and getting his entire family shot to death
Had he not been forced to abdicate, his only son Alexei would have become czar eventually. However, Alexei was a hemophilliac, meaning his blood had a hard time clotting. A single pinprick could cause him to bleed out. Had he died before his father and Nicholas had not had another son, the czar eldest daughter Olga would become the Czarina.
Nicholas II, the last Romanov Tsar (czar).
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Nicholas Romanov II was Czar before the Russian Revolution.
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The Last Czar, He was Murdered by Bolsheviks.
Queen Victoria and Czar Nicholas II were distantly related through ancestry but through marriage Queen Victoria was the grandmother of Czar Nicholas II. Queen Victoria's granddaughter Alexandra (the daughter of Victoria's daughter Alice) married Czar Nicholas II in 1894.
May 14th 1896.
Czar Nicholas of Russia, properly numbered Nicholas II.
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