Tsar Nicholas II, on horseback holding an icon, during prayers before a battle at the front on the Eastern Front. As the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II ruled the country from 1894 until his abdication in 1917. Unable or unwilling to leave the country, he and his family were murdered at the hands of the Bolsheviks on the cusp of the 1918 Revolution.
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Russian troops on the Eastern Front
September 19, 2011, 5:00pm / 38
Russian prisoners of war play a game of cards on the Eastern Front during World War I, circa 1915
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Grand Duke Michael of Russia (1861–1929) distributing cigarettes to Russian prisoners at Buckingham Palace, London during World War I around June 1916.
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Russian prisoners of war after their defeat and subsequent capture at Masurian Lakes in East Prussia, 1915.
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