Title:
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his son, Alexei, in military uniform, c1910-c1916 Artist: Unknown
Caption:
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his son, Alexei, in military uniform, c1910-c1916. Nicholas II (1868-1918), Emperor of Russia from 1894 and the Tsarevich Alexei (1904-1918), who was a haemophiliac. Nicholas was forced to abdicate after the Russian Revolution in 1917, and he, Alexei and the rest of the Russian imperial family were murdered by Communists at Ekaterinburg in 1918.