Nicholas II

American  

noun

1. Gérard de Bourgogne, died 1061, pope 1058–61.

2. 1868–1918, czar of Russia 1894–1917: executed 1918.

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Nicholas II British  

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

Surviving relatives of Tsar Nicholas II also lived there after fleeing to the UK, following the murder of other family members by Bolsheviks in 1918.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

Sevastopol was a preferred holiday destination for Nicholas II, the last Russian czar, and his family.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2023

These include the identification of two children of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian Empire, from remains discovered in 2007.

From Scientific American • Mar. 23, 2023

Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, paving the way for the end of three hundred years of Romanov rule.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

By March 1917, Czar Nicholas II had been forced to abdicate the throne.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee