Lenin and Tsar Nicholas | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley
Lenin was the antidote to the Romanov rule and in 1917, his Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and took power. Shortly after Nicholas and his family were massacred.
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