By giving up the throne for his son also, did Czar Nicolas doom his whole family to death?

Question

By giving up the throne for his son also, did Czar Nicolas doom his whole family to death?

Answer 1

this question was hotly debated

no i do not think so

but there are alot of people who will tell you the oppsite

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for your self and make a judgement on your own

Answer 2

The First World War placed an unbearable strain on Russia's weak government and economy, resulting in mass shortages and hunger.

       In the meantime, the mismanagement and failures of the war turned the people - and importantly the soldiers - against the Tsar, whose decision to take personal command of the army seemed to make him personally responsible for the defeats.

       In March 1917, the Tsar lost control first of the streets, then of the soldiers, and finally of the Duma, resulting in his forced abdication on 15 March 1917.

He did not abdicate the throne to give it to his son, but by doing so the Bolsheviks came to power and murdered his family. The government control went to the Bolsheviks, later called Communists.

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Answer 3

My understanding is that Czar Nicholas thought that by giving up the throne for himself and for his son (thereby repudiating his family's claim) he would save the lives of his entire family. He did not know that the family would be assassinated - which would have likely happened regardless of whether he gave up his throne and his son's claim on the throne, or refused to repudiate his claims.

Answer 4

The abdication of the Czar was done in the belief that with him out of power the political and social ensions in Russia would ease a little bit, not so much from the Czar's personal conviction that this ultimate sacrifice on his part would spare his entire family from destruction.  Their sad fate resulted from sheer miscalculation on his part and a misreading of the difference between the various revolutionary forces then slugging it out for control of the dying empire.  Although all of these forces wanted him out of the picture, in the hands of the more moderate factions, his family would have had better chance at survival and he could have negotiated for their transfer to safety as precondition for his abdication.But Nicholas seemed to see all revolutionaries as the same and he allowed himself to be under the custody of the Bolsheviks.  

The Bolsheviks, knowing full well that sovereigns who abdicate could still be reinstated had all of them killed.