The Russian military theorist Mikhail Dragomirov left an acrid characteristiс of Nicholas II: “He is quite capable of SITTING on the throne, but completely unfit for STANDING at the wheel of the country”. That pretty much sums it up, in my opinion. read more
Czar Nicholas the Second was in a position that many people aren’t born to do, and therefore is a product of his upbringing, meaning if he was taught to be anti-Semitic then he was taught to be so. read more
Nicholas II, Russian in full Nikolay Aleksandrovich, (born May 6 [May 18, New Style], 1868, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg), the last Russian emperor (1894–1917), who, with his wife, Alexandra, and their children, was killed by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. read more