Bust "Emperor Nicholas II" White, 4.5x2.5x6.5cm

Nikolai II Aleksandrovich 1868-1918. - The last Emperor of the All -Russian from 1894 to 1917, from the Imperial House of the Romanov.

Nikolai Alexandrovich’s reign began with a monstrous tragedy on the Khodynsky field on the occasion of the emperor’s coronation. As a result of the crush, more than a thousand people died, several hundred received injuries. In connection with these events, the people called Nikolai Bloody.

The time of the reign of Nicholas II was a period of the highest rates of economic growth in the history of Russia. Russia has become the main exporter of agricultural products, the first "Ginel of Europe".

According to the manifesto on October 17, 1905, the population of Russia received the right to inviolability of personality, freedom of speech, press, meetings, and unions. Political parties grew in the country, thousands of periodicals were published. The parliament - the State Duma was elected free will. Russia became a legal state - the judiciary was practically separated from the executive.

the emperor attached great importance to the development of railways. Even in his youth, he participated in the laying of the famous Siberian road.

, a monetary reform was carried out in the era of the reign of Nicholas II, the gold standard of the ruble was established, industry was violently developed. Nevertheless, the defeat in the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905, as well as revolutionary movements led to the fall of the authority of the emperor. During the participation of Russia in the First World War, economic and political difficulties began to increase in the country. This led to the fact that on March 2, 1917, Nicholas II renounced the throne.

already in the summer, by decision of the Provisional Government of Nicholas II, together with his family, he was sent to Tobolsk. In the spring of next year, the Bolsheviks moved the royal family and all close associates to Yekaterinburg, where in July 1918 Ipatiev was shot in the basement of the house.