This was 100 years ago when Pyotr Stolypin was prime minister under Tsar Nicholas II.
Stolypin was assassinated, Nicholas II murdered by the Bolsheviks and Russia plunged into 73 years of communism.
In 1917, in Russia at Pskov, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated for himself and his son.
Some militant Moscow Leninists have just blown up a recently erected statue of Nicholas II.
Like Czar Nicholas II, the mechanical peacock came at the decadent end of a long and rich tradition.
In 1894, Alexander III of Russia died and was succeeded by Nicholas II.
Forensic evidence has also shown beyond doubt that the Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
He was treated like a celebrity, socializing with aristocrats in Tzar Nicholas II's court and marrying two white European countesses.
It ended on an even more sour note, with the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family by Bolshevik forces in 1918.
Previous Russian leaders, including Tsar Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin, all had the sense to set low rates, says Mr Sadomsky.
Unfortunately for Witte and Russia, Alexander died early and was succeeded by his utterly ill-prepared, indecisive and weak-willed young son, Nicholas II.
What made him a power in Russia was the fact that the tsar, Nicholas II, listened to him and usually trusted his judgment.
In the Russia of Czar Nicholas II, no secret was more closely guarded than the surprises inside the precious eggs he gave to his wife and mother each Easter.
This child, Georgii Romanov, living in exile with his mother Maria in Spain, is the grandson of the Count Vladimir Kirillovich -- Nicholas II's cousin -- and the Countess Leonida Bagration.
"Tsar Nicholas II said that it's Russia, but not Russian, and what he meant is that this is a city that was intentionally built to embrace and look to the West of Europe, " Reid said.
But a row over how and where to bury the presumed remains of Tsar Nicholas II, killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, has rattled on for six years now since the bones were discovered near Yekaterinburg.
One means of accomplishing the restoration of the Romanov dynasty (which ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917) that is apparently under active consideration would have the Russian government invite back into the country a twelve-year-old descendent of the last czar, Nicholas II.
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