The contemporaries of Nicholas II said that as the country’s ruler, he often shied away or tried to distance himself from tackling the problems of the Russian Empire.
Rising discontent with Russian military setbacks during World War I and economic ruin led to popular unrest and a subsequent uprising in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, in February 1917.
The uprising culminated in the February Revolution which overthrew the monarchy. After abdicating on March 9, 1917, Nicholas II and his family were placed under house arrest at Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo outside Petrograd. In August 1917, the Provisional Government exiled the Russian royal family to Tobolsk, West Siberia. In April 1918, the Bolsheviks moved Nicholas II and his family to Yekaterinburg.
The last Russian Emperor, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, their children, servants and personal physician were executed by a firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House in the early hours of July 17, 1918.
The family of Tsar Nicholas II: from the Khodynka Tragedy to execution
13:50 GMT 19.07.2010 (Updated: 19:52 GMT 19.10.2022)
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The last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, was crowned on May 14, 1896. On May 18, 1,389 people were trampled to death, and roughly 1,300 were injured in a catastrophe on Moscow’s Khodynka Field during the coronation festivities.
