[The following events are in regards to the forced abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.]
In his diary, Nicholas wrote: “Left Pskov at 1 a.m. with oppressive feelings about events. All around treason and cowardice and deception.” The next day, en route to headquarters, he read “a great deal about Julius Caesar.”
The news of Nicholas’s abdication spread quickly, reaching Tsarskoe Selo in the afternoon of the following day. Alexandra at first refused to believe it: she said that she could not imagine her husband acting in such a hurry.
When, in the evening, the rumors were confirmed, she explained that “the Emperor had preferred to abdicate the crown rather than to break the oath which he had made at his coronation to maintain and transfer to his heir the autocracy such as he had inherited from his father.”
Then she cried.
Source:
Pipes, Richard. "The February Revolution." The Russian Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1990. 316-17. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Benckendorff, Last Days, 17.
Further Reading:
Николай II Алекса́ндрович (Nicholas II of Russia) / Nicholas the Bloody
Псков (Pskov) / Плѣсковъ (Pleskov)
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