Did Joseph Stalin ever meet Tsar Nicholas II?

Stalin returned, from exile, to St. Petersburg after Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown, and taken away. The 25th of March 1917 was the day Stalin returned to St. Petersburg. Before then, he was too low class to have met Tsar Nicholas II. read more

Lenin even accepted financial assistance from Germany, one of Russia’s enemies in the conflict. In March 1917, with inflation rampant, food supplies low and the army in tatters, Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. A sealed railroad car provided by Germany brought Lenin back to Russia the following month. read more

The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment—notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov—were shot, bayoneted and clubbed to death in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16-17 July 1918. read more