Nicholas II abdicates
1917 · Event
Stranded in his train while Petrograd's garrison joins the bread rioters, the last Tsar of Russia abdicates for himself and his haemophiliac son; his brother Michael declines the crown the next day. Three centuries of Romanov rule end in a railway carriage at Pskov.
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