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SUMMARY: By all accounts Nicholas was not a wise or "good" Tsar. Like all his family he did not ASK or SEEK to be Tsar, but it was his fate to be born to that position. Accounts claim that he was weak, indecisive and lacked the courage to carry out reforms that the suffering Russian people sorely needed. He seems to have seen it as his duty to maintain Imperial ways and traditions. He was not, however, in the same psychopathic mould as Genghis Khan, Ivan the terrible or Vlad the Impaler - OR indeed Stalin, Hitler and others who clearly deserved to be shot.
However, the Bolsheviks massacred him, his entire family and a number of servants for fear they would be rescued by advancing Imperialist forces, the Revolution not yet being clearly won. Such a rescue might have rallied more people to the anti-Revolution cause, which Lenin and his followers could not let happen.
Such a decision may have made sense regarding the Tsar himself - and even been in some way defensible from the Revolutionaries' point of view - but the WHOLE FAMILY was brutally shot and/or bayoneted to death, including five beautiful children. However, THEY DID NOT CHOOSE TO BE THE CHILDREN OF THE TSAR and were TOTALLY INNOCENT VICTIMS of the Bolsheviks and later Stalin - and now Putin.
REST IN PEACE DEAR CHILDREN. We never knew you but will also never forget you - or the horrible humans who murdered you.
PS At first, the Bolsheviks did not know what to do with Nicholas and his family, and there were negotiations with England and France about the possibility of exiling them to Europe. King George V refused, however, fearing that the presence of the family might encourage revolutionary rumblings in Europe. Basically, we could have saved them - but chose not to.
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