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Nicholas and Alexandra.(Brief Article)
The last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his czarina, Alexandra, led a contented family life with four daughters and a son. Nicholas was not particularly interested in national and international politics, nor was he as strong a monarch as his father, Alexander III. This had disastrous consequences when Japan defeated Russia in 1905, Nicholas only reluctantly agreed to the establishment of a parliament, and in 1914 tried to avoid the declaration of war on Germany. The Bolsheviks took power in 1917, and the following year executed the entire imperial family.
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Before this sad end, the family had lived as grandly as their ancestors, entertaining on a lavish scale in their many residences and commissioning and collecting works of art at will.
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