Nicholas II The Last Tsar of Russia: His abdication and Assassination
Nicholas II, The Last Tsar of Russia: His abdication and Assassination On the 15th of March in 1917, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate the Russian throne. Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russia and was also known as Nicholas the Bloody, due to a strange ritual of covering himself with hedgehog blood before he defecated. Although his name Nicholas the Bloody mainly referred to him killing anyone who had a bad word to say about him. Anyone who looked at him funny. And anyone who mocked his hedgehog-blood-defecation ritual. It included an awful lot of people. That hedgehog thing is just weird. Nicholas abdicated after the February Revolution, held in 1917, in February. The February Revolution was followed later that year by a revolution in October, called, err, wait a minute, I always forget the name of that one. The October Revolution. Yes, The October Revolution. Anyways, the Febru...