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Nicholas II

Abdication and Execution


Discovered in 1979, the remains of the czar, czarina, and three of their children exhumed in 1991 and reburied in St. Petersburg in 1998. The remains of the czar's two other children were discovered in 2007 and identified in 2008. In 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church canonized the czar and the members of his immediate family, but they were not recognized as victims of political repression and officially rehabilitated until 2008. Nicholas's vague mysticism, limited intelligence, and submission to sinister influences made him particularly unfit to cope with the events that led to his tragic end.

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