Nicholas II never murdered anyone —except some thousands of his subjects in the line of duty — and his private life, at least to the non-Freudian eye, was free from any unwholesome Aegean taint He was a dutiful son, a devoted, not to say doting husband, a model father, and a conscientious monarch. Save for a brief early fling with the famous ballerina Ksesinskaya — the height of conventionality for a royal prince in those times
