Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I of Montenegro: Alexander III of Russia, Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Alexander III of Russia, Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Christian X of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France, David Bagration of Mukhrani, Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, Crown Prince Nicholas II of Montenegro, Prince Dimitri Romanov, Andrew Bertie, Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Jorge de Bagration, Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Venice and Piedmont, Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro, Filip Vujanovi, Pio Laghi, Baron Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Boris, Hereditary Prince of Montenegro, B o Th ng, Neboj a Kalu erovi, Eugen von Albori. Excerpt: Nicholas II (Russian: , tr. Nikolay II, Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov ) (18 May 1868 - 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Critics nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because of the Khodynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, the anti-Semitic pogroms, his execution of political opponents, and his pursuit of military campaigns on a hitherto unprecendented scale. Under his rule, Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, including the almost total annihilation of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. As head of state, he approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914, which ...