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Nicholas II (1868-1918)
Nicholas II, 1914 ©Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia.
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He was deposed during the Russian Revolution and executed by the Bolsheviks.
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born near St Petersburg on 18 May 1868, the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III. When he succeeded his father in 1894, he had very little experience of government.
In the same year, Nicholas married Princess Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt (a duchy in Germany). They had four daughters and a son, Alexis, who suffered from the disease haemophilia.
Alexandra was the dominant personality in their relationship and encouraged the weaker Nicholas's autocratic tendencies.
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He mistrusted most of his ministers and yet was incapable of carrying out the task of ruling the vast Russian empire alone.
Determined that Russia should not be left out in the scramble for colonial possessions, Nicholas encouraged Russian expansion in Manchuria.
This provoked war with Japan in 1904. The resulting Russian