Deaths by firearm in Russia

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 149. Chapters: Grigori Rasputin, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Lavrentiy Beria, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Alexander Pushkin, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Lev Kamenev, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Nicholas II of Russia, Christian Rakovsky, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Anna Politkovskaya, Sidney Reilly, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Mikhail Lermontov, Natalya Estemirova, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Anastasia Baburova, Yakov Blumkin, Nikolai Girenko, Stanislav Markelov, Galina Starovoytova, Ruslan Gelayev, Andrey Kozlov, Sergei Yushenkov, False Dmitriy I, Ruslan Yamadayev, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Paul von Rennenkampf, Movladi Baisarov, Vladislav Listyev, Viktor Popkov, Olga Kameneva, Pyotr Schmidt, Igor Talkov, Shabtai Kalmanovich, Zura Bitiyeva, Valery Sablin, Kazimierz Bartel, Anatoly Trofimov, Malika Umazheva, Lev Zadov, Marcel Pauker, Maria Spiridonova, Nadezhda Chaikova, Matvei Berman, Rory Peck, Maxim Lazovsky, Abdulla Alishayev, Nikolay Bogolepov, Rasul Makasharipov, Malik Akhmedilov, Alexander Bichkov, Grigory Vakulinchuk, Yuri Shishlov, Francis Cromie, Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, Konstantin Volkov, Vitaly Karayev, Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov, Paul Tatum, Otari Kvantrishvili, Kazbek Pagiyev, Ruslan Amerkhanov, Bashir Aushev, Zarema Sadulayeva, Wilhelm von Mirbach, Ramzan Khadzhiev, Nina Yefimova, Khasan Yandiyev, Nikolay Suleimanov, Adam Tepsurgayev, Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Gadzhi Abashilov, Anatoly Kyarov, Konstantin Gey, Rizvan Chitigov, Magomed Gadaborshev, Mikhail Malofeyev, Vladimir Zhitarenko, Viktor Pimenov, Alimsultan Alkhamatov, Magomed Omarov, Farid Babayev, Samson Mamulia. Excerpt: Nicholas II (Russian: , tr. Nikolay II, Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov ) (18 May 1868 - 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Critics nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because of the Khodynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, the anti-Semitic pogroms, his execution of political opponents, and his pursuit of military campaigns of a hitherto unprecendented scale. Under his rule, Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, including the almost total annihilation of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. As head of state, he approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914, which marked the first fatal step into World War I, a war in which 3.3 million Russians would be killed, thus leading to the demise of the Romanov dynasty less than three years later. Nicholas II abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917 during which he and his family were imprisoned first in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, then later in the Governor's Mansion in Tobolsk, and finally at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. Nicholas II, his wife, his son, his four daughters, the family's medical doctor, the Tsar's valet, the Empress' lady-in-waiting, and the family's cook were murdered in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16/17 July 1918. This led to the canonization of Nicholas II, his wife...