"....Considering that, as Magnus rightly pointed out, Nicholas was not at the palace that Sunday, he was completely unaware of what was happening! The communists imposed the "bloody" title on him to appear as heroes in the face of the people, whom they themselves were shooting at!..."
But this is a misleading statement, sir. At that time, modern means of communication allowed information to be conveyed via telephone and telegraph. Don't be fooled by the fact that Nicholas was not in the city at that moment. No one, absolutely NO ONE, would have dared to open fire on the columns without his DIRECT APPROVAL. And the title "bloody" appeared immediately after the Khodynka events, when hundreds of people died, and it was the common people, not the Bolsheviks, who gave him that nickname, and long