Nicholas II

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Russian emperor from the Romanov dynasty, ruling during the early 20th century and involved in the 1917 revolution.

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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · 300 Years of the Romanovs 👑🇷🇺 | The Rise and Fall o... · 3:25:31 · 3 Sep

…For Nicholas himself the abdication had brought, by his own diary, a strange and slightly uncomfortable peace.…

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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · 300 Years of the Romanovs 👑🇷🇺 | The Rise and Fall o... · 2:39:42 · 3 Sep

…Within two weeks, every major power on the continent was at war with somebody, and an entire generation of European young men was being herded onto trains heading for fronts that nobody had ever heard of a month earlier.…

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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · 300 Years of the Romanovs 👑🇷🇺 | The Rise and Fall o... · 2:39:36 · 3 Sep

…Britain, drawn in by Germany's invasion of neutral Belgium, joined a few days after that.…

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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · 300 Years of the Romanovs 👑🇷🇺 | The Rise and Fall o... · 2:39:32 · 3 Sep

…France, allied to Russia, was drawn in within days.…

Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · 300 Years of the Romanovs 👑🇷🇺 | The Rise and Fall o... · 2:39:30 · 3 Sep

…Germany declared war on Russia.…

Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · 300 Years of the Romanovs 👑🇷🇺 | The Rise and Fall o... · 2:39:27 · 3 Sep

…Russia, having already started, could not easily stop.…

Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · 300 Years of the Romanovs 👑🇷🇺 | The Rise and Fall o... · 2:39:23 · 3 Sep

…Germany, allied to Austria, immediately demanded that Russia stop.…

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