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15 unusual facts about Nicholas II of Russia


Allen Appel

While seeking an explanation for his unusual situation, Alex attempts to save Czar Nicholas and his family.

Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus

In 1896 Nicholas II of Russia commissioned Fyodor Uspensky's Russian Archaeological Institute of Constantinople to buy the greater part of it for the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg.

Confessions of a Cheat

In Paris, he is unwillingly drawn into a plot to assassinate the visiting Czar Nicholas II of Russia by fellow restaurant worker Serge Abramich.

Helsinki Senate Square

During the Russification of Finland from 1899 onwards, the statue became a symbol of quiet resistance, with people of Helsinki protesting to the decrees of Nicholas II leaving flowers at the foot of the statue of his grandfather, then known in Finland as "the good czar".

James Winkfield

Later that year, Winkfield emigrated to Russia where he was greeted as a celebrity and in the name of the Czar Nicholas II competed at racetracks all over Europe.

Jan Rządkowski

Rządkowski was a skilled commander, but also had to become a politician in order to convince Nicholas II to extend the Polish formations fighting alongside the Russian Army.

Joseph A. Conry

Conry was decorated by Czar Nicholas II, and was made a member of the Knights of St. Anne.

Nance O'Neil

Hickman and O'Neil costarred as Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra in the silent film, The Fall of the Romanovs (1917).

Pyotr Vannovskiy

He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878; held commands of a St. Petersburg Cadet Corps and an Army Corps based in Kiev; served as Minster of War from 1882 until 1898 under the Tsars Alexander III (1881–1894) and Nicholas II (1894–1917) respectively.

Raymonde de Laroche

During the show in St. Petersburg, she was personally congratulated by Tsar Nicholas II.

Rivera, Buenos Aires Province

During the first decade of 20th century, Jews persecuted by the Czar Nicholas II of Russia from different places in the world began arriving in Argentina.

Seven, They Are Seven

The work was composed in the year that the Russian tsar, Nicholas II of Russia, was overthrown.

St George's Hall and Apollo Room of the Winter Palace

Most historically, it was the setting of the opening of the First State Duma by Nicholas II, in 1906.

Truus van Aalten

Her claim to be related to Anton Chekhov was true, but she also loved to spin the most amazing yarns about her early life: she was close to Tsar Nicholas II, had met Rasputin and had fled the Revolution disguised as a mute peasant woman, hiding her jewellery in her mouth.

Tsar Nicholas

Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), last Emperor of Russia from 1894 until abdication in 1917.


Alexander III Commemorative

The Alexander III Commemorative egg is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1909, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented it to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.

Alexander Krivoshein

He was one of several ministers to be dismissed for opposing Nicholas II's decision to take command of the Russian Army.

Church of the Savior on Blood

It should not to be confused with the Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land, located in the city of Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II (1868–1918) and several members of his family and household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution.

Edvard Radzinsky

The books translated to English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin.

Eugene Nicolaievich Ivanoff

Eugene Nicolaievich Ivanoff of Poland, who claimed to be Tsarevich Alexei Romanov in the mid-1920s, was one of the first in a long line of Romanov impostors to emerge from various parts of the world following the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family at Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918.

Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising

In October, Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary and Nicholas II of Russia met at Mürzsteg and sponsored the Mürzsteg program of reforms, which provided for foreign policing of the Macedonia region, financial compensation for victims, and establishment of ethnic boundaries in the region.

Khioniya Guseva

Grigori Rasputin, a friend of the tsar Nicholas II of Russia and the Tsarina, was visiting his wife and children in his village, along the Tura River, in Siberia.

Michael Jayston

In 1971, he starred as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in the film Nicholas and Alexandra, then in 1973 took the lead role of Mr Rochester in a BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre opposite Sorcha Cusack.

Princess Paley

Princess Paley was a Russian noble title, first bestowed upon Olga Karnovich, Countess von Hohenfelsen, morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, by Nicholas II of Russia.

Royal Danish

The Royal Danish egg (also known as the Danish Jubilee egg) is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1903, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented the egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.

Safety coffin

Count Michel de Karnice-Karnicki, a chamberlain to the Tsar of Russia, patented his own safety coffin, called Le Karnice, in 1897 and demonstrated it at the Sorbonne the following year.

Saint Petersburg Mosque

The permission to purchase the site was given by Emperor Nicholas II in Peterhof on 3 July 1907.

Tazza

It was presented by Czar Nicholas II to August Heckscher in 1910 and given to the Linda Hall Library in 1972 by Mrs. Helen Spencer.

Victor Renquist

He has reputedly works for the Duke of Wellington, Nicholas II of Russia, and the NSA.