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

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

From Seattle Times

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

Russia’s last czar, Nicholas II, had been killed along with his family four years earlier.

From New York Times

The queen’s grandfather, King George V, was a cousin of Nicholas II, a Romanov who had been czar of Russia until he resigned in 1917.

From New York Times