Tsar Nicholas II Romanov

You (R-FT194071) and Tsar Nicholas II Romanov (R-M269) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-M269) who lived around 3900 BCE (6,000 years ago).

The last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland, Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov (1868-1918) reigned from November 1, 1894 until his abdication on March 15, 1917. He is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Nicholas supported Serbia during the July Crisis and authorized the Russian Army’s mobilization on July 30, 1914. In response, Germany declared war on Russia and its ally France, launching the Great War, often known as WWI.

The Russian Provisional Government imprisoned Nicholas and his family and banished them to Siberia as a result of several military defeats and low morale at home and on the battlefield. The family was detained in Yekaterinburg following the Bolsheviks’ taking power, and the Romanovs were killed there on July 17, 1918.

The consensus among historians is that Nicholas was a well-intentioned but ineffective leader who proved unable to handle the issues his country faced.

Nicholas was a cousin to Great Britain’s King George V as well as the father of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, the inspiration for the 1997 movie Anastasia.

Information sourced from Wikipedia, Biography.com, and Britannica.