On one side is a picture of Lenin and another image of Emperor Nicholas 2. That's how they met. Portrait of Czar Nicholas II Discovered Beneath Portrait of Lenin. More details can be found here. Article in Russian but use the translator. read more
Czar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin Left: Czar Nicholas II, Right: Vladimir Lenin Czar Nicholas II The Basics Czar Nicholas II was born on May 18,1868 in Saint Petersburg. Nicholas II was well educated, especially tutored by a man named Danilovitch who had been given the title of General Aide-de-camp. 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