Round 2: Tossup 10

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

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