What errors do you think Nicholas II committed that made matters worse for him and his family?

Question

...during the Russian Revolution

Answer 1

not leaving town sooner

Answer 2

His uncle, Edward VII,offered to help him and give him advice;Nicholas refused the help.Nicholas had difficulties trusting people;instead of looking for help,he was suspicious of everyone.

Answer 3

Nicholas II was an absolute ruler, and even after request for reforms, he created a State Council, an upper chamber, of which he would nominate half its members. He also retained for himself the right to declare war, to control the Orthodox Church and to dissolve the Duma. The Tsar also had the power to appoint and dismiss ministers.

Nicholas II had many psychological burdens that bedeviled him as tsar, his distaste for official life (especially his ministers), his devotion to duty, his closed-mindedness regarding reform, his unwillingness to acknowledge past mistakes, his sense of fatalism and superstitiousness, and his underlying feelings of inadequacy compare to other monarchs. This all might have played a crucial role towards the fate of him and the rest of his family.