His coronation was overshadowed by a catastrophe where over a thousand spectators were crushed to death. Married to Alix of Hessen, his reign was marked by two futile wars, the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1905, and the October 
His coronation was overshadowed by a catastrophe where over a thousand spectators were crushed to death. Married to Alix of Hessen, his reign was marked by two futile wars, the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1905, and the October Manifesto which established a Duma dominated by his minister, Peter Stolypin. For 10 points—name this person killed at Yekaterinburg with his family in 1917, the last tsar of Russia.
His coronation was overshadowed by a catastrophe where over a thousand spectators were crushed to death.
{Nicholas II} [prompt on {Nicholas}]