Round 2: Tossup 10

This monarch was supported by the reactionary Black Hundreds movement. A Polish woman who went by the name of Anna (15[1])Anderson pretended to be this monarch’s youngest (-5[1])daughter. (15[2])Peasants were given (15[1])the right to (15[1])privately (15[1])own land in a reform named after a prime (15[1])minister of this monarch, (*) Pyotr Stolypin. On the (-5[1])urging of Sergei Witte, this ruler agreed to create an elected legislature in the October Manifesto. (10[1])Georgy (10[2])Gapon led workers who were shot by guards at this ruler’s Winter Palace. This ruler lost (10[1])the Russo-Japanese (10[1])War in 1905. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the February Revolution deposed what last tsar of Russia? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Nicholas II [or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; prompt on Nicholas or Nikolai; reject “Nicholas I” or “Nikolai I”]
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