At his father's death he turned to a cousin, tears in his eyes, and said, "What is going to happen to me, to you… to all of Russia?
At his father's death he turned to a cousin, tears in his eyes, and said, "What is going to happen to me, to you… to all of Russia? I am not prepared to be tsar. I never wanted to become one. I know nothing of the business of ruling." He then spent the next 23 years proving his point, including poor preparation for the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. For ten points name the ineffectual son of Alexander III, whose reign as tsar was bad enough that there hasn't been one since.
At his father's death he turned to a cousin, tears in his eyes, and said, "What is going to happen to me, to you… to all of Russia?
Nicholas II