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Nicholas abdicated in his favour. He agreed to take it, then change his mind. It is in plenty of history books. Legally in Russian law having accepted the throne he was from that moment Tsar, even if a couple of minutes later he turned around and said ""actually I won't, if you don't mind. I've reinserting the edit, which is factually correct. He was officially designated BTW as Michael II. \(caint) "