George Alexandrovich

Grand Duke George Alexandrovich became Emperor of All Russia in 1910 and reigned until his death in 1918. He rarely spoke of his brother, Tsar Nicolas II, which was doubtless a wise policy, given that when cornered on the subject, he seemed to defend his brother's actions, reminding that had it been true that 90% of the population of Russia were loyal to the West (or the NU, as Nicholas had believed they were one and the same), the Great Starvation, far from being the act of a madman, was the only way to cripple their power without starting a war and causing more innocent lives to be lost.

In 1911, the Tsar received a letter from one Monsieur Cécil Leroy, asking him to send a compilation of all he knew about the Mad Tsar. Understandably, Tsar George never wrote back, knowing the damage such a document could do in the wrong hands. Nonetheless, word of his feeling on the subject must have gotten out, for in the year 1918 he was brutally murdered by an old peasant woman who held him responsible for the deaths of her grandchildren in The Great Starvation.