In the summer of 1918, more than a year after the abolition of the Russian monarchy, Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family along with their servants were massacred by a Bolshevik firing squad. In the end, the death of Nicholas II ended an era of Russian history that began with Peter the Great.
Some claim that the sudden death of Tsar Alexander III brought the downfall of Romanov Russia, while many others point to the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, commonly known as Alexander the Liberator. During Alexander's reign, numerous reforms were enacted, most famously the Emancipation of the Serfs in 1861. By the time of his assassination, Alexander was proposing considering political reforms in order to combat revolutionary movements. When Alexander was killed by a member of the Narodnaya Volya, his son and successor, Alexander III, decided to end this era of reform and reversed many of his father's policies and reforms. What if the Narodnaya Volya never killed
Alexander the Liberator?
Alexander the Liberator?