The sad fact is that a pretty clear line can be drawn from Nicky II straight to the Holocaust... the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, though not an original work, having been cobbled together from a variety of sources, was promulgated by Russian Intelligence officers... the 1st full Russian translation was issued in a journal that circulated widely among the Black Hundreds...An argument could be made that Antisemitism In Russia, was starting to, or would have, become more race based and pseudo scientific with the growth of right wing mass politics, including the Black Hundreds. Speaking of the Black Hundreds, Nicholas the II's failure to capitalize on the emergence of reactionary mass politics, despite his own approval for thm (including approval of pogroms) shows his political ineptitude.
And though Nicky, somewhat to his credit I suppose, did try to suppress its publication due to its fraudulent origin, he didn't object to the purpose for which it was intended - to convince the world of a vast global conspiracy on the part of the Jews....
The Blessed Nicholas had blood accumulating on his hands even after his death....