Unless he hid it well?

By his own admission he didn't want the throne right?

Yeah

As for being a poor ruler, he was a simple man, not well suited to the intrigues of politics. Most of what went on during his reign was actually the work of the aristocrats.

His father was the good ruler, murdered, however

Forgive me for being difficult, but this is the first I’ve ever heard the claims of Nicholas being an adulterer and an occultist

same

Yes, it's mostly to discredit his simplicity

Allegedly he had an affair with a ballerina

But there's not really much backing that up

Ah ok

Hadn’t heard that one before

Albeit, I don’t know a whole lot about that particular time in Russia

My focuses have been more on Western Europe and Rome

Tsarist Russia was basically the same as Rome technologically

Wild claim

Maybe worse

Also the first I’ve heard of such a claim

Alexander II was industrialising the nation and reforming the old feudal system

Hahaha

However he was murdered

The III, my bad

Im just trying to make a point, the nation was (and by a large part still is) an absolute shithole

or was he not?

It is pretty much the backwater of Europe

German soldiers were taken aback, they thought they were fighting in the middle ages

hmm, i'm mistaking someone

Those who knew him well described him as a very pious man, and very nearly as devoted to his family. He apparently liked to spend as much time as he could with his children, and delegated much of his power to aristocrats who would lie to his face about the state of the empire. Many of those men had served under his father, so he trusted them.

That’s the more likely scenario

^

And given most aristocracies across Europe were riddled with Jewish corruption at the time

It would make sense

He only tolerated Rasputin because his son seemed to improve under the mystic's care, but he hated the man. He just feared losing his son more than he disliked this madman from BFE.

Yes, my bad, they murdered Nicholas's Prime Minister who was reforming things for good

Pyotr Stolypin

He was murdered by a jew leftist

Stolypin is based as fuck

All Jews are leftists. No need to qualify.

This was the assassin

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1864

There’s one sect I haven at least a little respect for. I forget their name, but they’re the fundamentalists of jews and are viciously hated by the rest because of it. They completely reject the Talmud and say it’s false. They believe only in the Torah.