Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and some of his troops.
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"The Emperor is judicious, moderate and hard-working. As a rule his ideas are very sensible. He has a lofty idea of his functions and the strongest sense of duty. But his education is inadequate and the scale of the problems it is his mission to solve only too frequently exceeds the measure of his intelligence. He does not know men, affairs or life itself. His distrust of himself and others means that he is always suspicious of superiority, and the result is that he can only tolerate nobodies around him. He is also very religious, in a narrow and superstitious way, and this makes him very jealous of his authority, as he receives it from God."
Former President of Russia's Imperial Council of Ministers Count Vladimir Kokovtsov speaking to Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, on August 29, 1916. Kokovtsov had been Prime Minister from September 18, 1911 to January 30, 1914 and had also served as Finance Minister.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. III by Maurice Paléologue, pp. 14–15, publisher: George H. Doran Company
1916-08-29, 1916, August, Nicholas II, Nicholas, Tsar Nicholas
