He had recently compared himself to Alexander the Great and was planning the conquest of Parthia , and many Romans thought he had to be stopped.
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During WWI he took command of the Russian army and turned a deaf ear to the peasants who were starving. During the 1917 food riots in St. Petersburg he ordered his soldiers to shoot the peasants, but they refused. He tried unsuccessfully to give the crown to his brother, then fled Moscow. His father taught him how to play trumpet and by the age of 12 he was in front of his own band. The game had been around since the 1820s and consisted of a confederation of clubs in the east, none of whom paid their players.