[as the Queen Mother berates her son's failures in a late 1916 visit to his military base]
Queen Mother Maria Fedorova:
I wish your father were alive.
Tsar Nicholas II:
Don't throw him at me.
Queen Mother Maria Fedorova:
He knew how to be a Tsar. He'd have burned Vienna down, stomped on the Germans, and shot the strikers, ANYTHING to give Russia peace. And HE'D certainly would've known how to deal with Rasputin.
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