AHC: Get Czar Nicky Back on the Throne

ASB!

Now that we have that outta of the way...

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Czar Nicholas II, who ruled the Russian Empire from 1894 to 1917, was forced to abdicate his throne due to the February Revolution in 1917. After which, Nick and his family were subsequently under house arrest in the Alexander Place. He was then moved to the Governors Mansion, and later to a royal summer house in which him and his family were captured and executed by the Bolesheviks in 1918.

Your challenge is to get Nicholas out of captivity prior to being moved to the summer house, and back on the throne, ruling as a puppet, constitutional monarch, dictator, etc.

Time frame: March 1917 - end date TBD by you
 
Won't happen without a very different Nicholas. He was massively unpopular by 1917 thanks to the war (so bad his own soldiers placed him under arrest on his own train) and Nicholas himself was more of what you could call a dutiful monarch than someone who actually wanted the job. The happiest time in his life was after he was deposed and was tending a garden while spending time with his family (until the Bolsheviks moved him off to be shot). He believed his God-appointed duty was to rule as Tsar of All Russias but he was not like people like Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, or Alexander II who genuinely wanted and got a charge off of the power their position gave them. Nicholas did his job because he had to, not because he wanted to, making him the sort of person who would be least likely to take the incredibly brutal steps that would have been necessary to return to and retain power.
 
Won't happen without a very different Nicholas. He was massively unpopular by 1917 thanks to the war (so bad his own soldiers placed him under arrest on his own train) and Nicholas himself was more of what you could call a dutiful monarch than someone who actually wanted the job. The happiest time in his life was after he was deposed and was tending a garden while spending time with his family (until the Bolsheviks moved him off to be shot). He believed his God-appointed duty was to rule as Tsar of All Russias but he was not like people like Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, or Alexander II who genuinely wanted and got a charge off of the power their position gave them. Nicholas did his job because he had to, not because he wanted to, making him the sort of person who would be least likely to take the incredibly brutal steps that would have been necessary to return to and retain power.

This can't be true.

What about the death charges he ordered during WWI. And the massacre of the protesters outside the Duma.

He ordered these to prevent his deposment.

Why wouldn't he be capable of doing again, especially to exact bloody revenge on his enemies.
 
This can't be true.

What about the death charges he ordered during WWI. And the massacre of the protesters outside the Duma.

He ordered these to prevent his deposment.

Why wouldn't he be capable of doing again, especially to exact bloody revenge on his enemies.

Because, by all accounts and from all available sources, after he was actually deposed he basically gave up. His own statements put a big emphasis on doing his God-given duty over anything else and he was much more of a family man than the autocrat his father Alexander III was.

On top of that Nicholas himself was widely despised in part because of the actions he took to maintain power. He had no real base of support and even during the Russian Civil War none of the major White factions were making a big to-do about restoring Nicholas to his throne. He had no base of support and the spark had gone out by the time the February Revolution was over.
 
This can't be true.

What about the death charges he ordered during WWI. And the massacre of the protesters outside the Duma.

He ordered these to prevent his deposment.

Why wouldn't he be capable of doing again, especially to exact bloody revenge on his enemies.

Because it was impossible to regain the throne when no one wanted him to have it, (seriously, despite Bolshevik claims no white forces ever declared for the monarchy; which should tell you something about how discredited it was given how backwards, brutal, and reactionary most white leaders where. None of them showed any interest in bringing him back. Mostly because he wasn't important and ultimately the monarchy wasn't important to the situation. There's a lot of overblown claims about how "outdated" the monarchy was, but really it is kind of true that in the end they where an essentially removable part of even Russian reactionary conservatism. The church, Property, and the autocracy could all go on without it.
 
This won't happen. No one wants him back on the throne. Maybe you could imagine some kind of Puyi scenario for him, but even someone in need of a puppet emperor would likely pick someone else because of how much everyone hated them.
 
The United Kingdom declares the Romanov's British Royals and requests their immediate move to London. After they are safely in London and the war is over, the UK and allies win the Russian Civil War and put him back in charge.
 
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