Nicholas II

noun

1. Gérard de Bourgogne, died 1061, pope 1058–61.
2. 1868–1918, czar of Russia 1894–1917: executed 1918.

Nicholas II

noun

1. Nicholas II18681918MRussianPOLITICS: hereditary ruler 1868–1918, tsar of Russia (1894–1917). After the disastrous Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), he was forced to summon a representative assembly, but his continued autocracy and incompetence precipitated the Russian Revolution (1917): he abdicated and was shot

Example Sentences

Nicholas II, the last Romanov, built the graceful Livadia Palace on top of a hill there.

From The Daily Beast

He hosted him in the one-time office of Tsar Nicholas II that overlooks a tropical garden and the Black Sea.

From The Daily Beast

The relatives included Tsar Nicholas II, King George V, and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

From The Daily Beast

Nicholas II, amid all his perplexities, was made glad by the birth of a son and heir, who received the name of Alexis.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1059 the new system of papal election introduced by Nicholas II.

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The government of Nicholas II was quite as helpless as it was tyrannical, corrupt, and inefficient.

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Never before since his accession to the throne had Nicholas II had the support of the nation to anything like the same extent.

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Another committee was sent to inform Nicholas II that he was deposed.

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