Politics
Nicholas II
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Commemorated here
Nicholas II Abdication Memorial Plaque
The plaque names the last Russian emperor and commemorates his abdication aboard the imperial train at Pskov.
Commemorated here
Pskov Railway Museum
Photographs and documentary displays recount the emperor’s arrival in Pskov and the abdication signed aboard his train.
Lived here
Site of the Gendarme Siding
Nicholas II spent his final hours as reigning emperor inside his train while it stood on this probable siding.
Traces in other cities
- Saint Petersburg
- Alexander Palace — Nicholas II made the Alexander Palace the principal home of his family and was confined here after his abdication.
- Saint Petersburg
- Anichkov Palace — Spent childhood at Anichkov with parents Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna; after his 1894 Winter Palace wedding began married life there in six small rooms.
- Saint Petersburg
- Kazan Cathedral — Presided over a Te Deum at Kazan Cathedral on 21 Feb 1913 for the Romanov tercentenary, followed by a state reception at the Winter Palace.
- Saint Petersburg
- Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Saint Petersburg
- Russian Museum
- Saint Petersburg
- Winter Palace — Imperial residence in Petersburg until the February Revolution.
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