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Article: The last Czar Nicholas II: the heir of Russia's once powerful Romanov dynasty fell victim to bad decisions, bad luck, and the tide of history.(World History)
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- March 7, 2005
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At the dawn of the 20th century, the mighty Romanov family had ruled the vast Russian empire for nearly 300 years. By 1918, the last Romanov Czar, Nicholas II, and his family were prisoners of Russia's new government in a remote coalmining city in the Ural Mountains. The outlook was grim.
This never would have happened to the previous Czar, the powerful autocrat Alexander III. But Nicholas was not like his father. "What am I going to do? What is going to happen to me?" the 26-year-old Nicholas fretted when he became Czar, after Alexander died unexpectedly in 1894. Later, Nicholas called being Czar "the awful job I have feared all my life."
In the end, ...
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