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NICHOLAS II
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution; he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks (1868-1918)
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Instance hypernyms:
czar; tsar; tzar (a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917))