Death Quote by Robert K. Massie
““Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is Peter the Great. But Nicholas, whose hand was lighter than that of any tsar before him, is "Bloody Nicholas". In human terms, this is irony rich and dramatic, the more so because Nicholas knew what he was called.””
![“The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.” quote by Wilhelm II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d9e/wilhelm-ii-27754_betrayal_the-tsar-nicholas-ii-is-not-treacherous_3036050.jpg)
![“Only Nicky [Nicholas Romanov II], the Czar, was [Kaiser Wilhelm]'s friend, neither clever nor strong like himself, but at least malleable.” quote by Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4b0/barbara-tuchman-3945_romanovs_only-nicky-nicholas-romanov-ii-the-czar_652985.jpg)
![“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.'…” quote by Robert K. Massie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/05e/robert-k-massie-19874_catherine-the-great_to-prove-to-her-friend-swedish-diplomat_646448.jpg)
