Nicholas II of Russia

Nicholas II (Russian: Николай II, Николай Александрович Романов, tr. Nikolai II, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov) (18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. He was the son of Tsar Alexander III.

Nicholas ruled using the Staff of Eden, which he most likely received from his father. He either passed it on to the Templar Grigori Rasputin, or Rasputin simply took the Staff. Irregardless, without the Staff, which was subsequently lost in the Tunguska expolsion, Nicholas soon lost all control he had over his multitudes of subjects within a decade. On March 1, 1917, he was trapped on his Imperial train outside St. Petersburg, returning from the Eastern Front of WWI, to quell the explosion of revolution that had erupted days earlier. Against his will, he was forced to abdicate all his power, after being dissuaded from trying to pass it on to his son and brother.

Within the year, Nicholas and his family were nothing but pawns in the ensuing Russian Civil War. In the end, the Bolshiveks, probably under influence of the Templars, killed the Romanovs. On July 18, 1918, Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their four daughters and only son were all gunned down in the basement of a warehouse in the Siberian backwater of Yekaterinburg.