To this day, Russians have differing opinions on the country's last tsar, Nicholas II, who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Some call him a model statesman and even a martyr - while others dismiss him as a faceless politician who ruined his country. He's referred to as both Nicholas the Slaughterer and the Tsar-Martyr. So what was the real story behind the last emperor?
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