Khodynka Tragedy
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The Khodynka Tragedy was a crowd crush that occurred on 30 May 1896, on Khodynka Field in Moscow, Russia. The crush happened during the festivities after the coronation of the last Emperor of Russia,
A victim of the crush
Spectators gathered at Khodynka
Victims of the stampede at Khodynka
An Orthodox church on Khodynka Field commemorating the incident
Nicholas II
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Nicholas II was Emperor of Russia from 1 November 1894 until his abdication in 1917. He was the last Russian monarch before the Russian Revolution and oversaw the Russian Empire's participation in Wor
Khodynka Tragedy
…O.S. 18 May] 1896, on Khodynka Field in Moscow, Russia. The crush happened during the festivities after the coronation of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II. While 1,282 corpses were collected from the scene, injury estimates range widely from 1,200 to 20,000. Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra were crowned…
Nicholas in 1912
Nicholas II in Nikolo Tikhonov Monastery 01
Nicholas with his mother, Maria Feodorovna, in 1870
Nicholas with his cousin, George V of the United Kingdom (right), wearing German military uniforms in Berlin before the war; 1913