>>18142998
>be Tsar Nicholas II
>literally the Autocrat of All Russia, ruling by divine right
>your entire legitimacy is based on God-appointed dynasty
>sending your family away makes you look weak, tells the people the dynasty is finished
>also, no foreign royals are offering asylum, they're all your cousins and they're scared of the spread of revolution
>abandoning your post and splitting the family is the most un-tsar, un-father thing you could do
>you stand with your family and your people, right or wrong

He was a man trapped by his own duty. PBUH.