Tsar of all the Russias, emperor and autocrat by divine right, Nicolas II married his cousin, Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1864, who converted to Orthodoxy and took the name of Alexandra Fiodorovna. During the war, rumors multiplied that the Empress would rule the country in secret, organizi
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