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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Herman of Alaska, Peter the Aleut, Raphael of Brooklyn, Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Canonization of the Romanovs, Tikhon of Moscow, Innocent of Alaska, Nicholas of Japan, Sergius of Radonezh, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Saint Ambrose of Optina, Gavriil of Belostok, Nil Sorsky, Pavel of Taganrog, Eudoxia of Moscow, Veniamin, Matryona Nikonova, Sergius of Valaam, Varvara Yakovleva, Vasily Gryaznov, Luka Voyno-Yasenetsky, Isaiah of Rostov, Chinese Martyrs, Adrian of Poshekhon, John of Tobolsk, Blessed John of Moscow the Fool-For-Christ, Adrian of Ondrusov, Procopius of Ustyug, Innocent of Irkutsk, John the Hairy, Mark of the Caves, Barlaam of Kiev, Alexander Svirsky, Artemy of Verkola, Antony of Siya, Feodor Kuzmich, Euphrosynus of Pskov, Sylvester of the River Obnora. Excerpt: Nicholas II (Russian: , tr. Nikolay II, Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov ) (18 May 1868 - 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Critics nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because of the Khodynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, the anti-Semitic pogroms, his execution of political opponents, and his pursuit of military campaigns on a hitherto unprecendented scale. Under his rule, Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, including the almost total annihilati...

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