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Or he lives and you have a sort of Baldwin IV style sickly monarch.
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If he lived he'd be the tsar that gets dunked on by the Finns, since his dad was already 50 by 1918. So he'd be dead anyway, probably. Either way, we end up with Nick II's grandson as the current monarch.

I do plan on making things kinda murky with rumors that the whole family was killed, in case anyone wants to play as a different set of monarchists who challenge the legitimacy of the current tsar. The idea being that the current tsar was injured during the attack and assumed dead for a while, so some people think he's just a fake put in power by imperial generals.