Perhaps the most Godly leader in the post enlightenment era and was assassinated because of it. 
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Discussion
He was the last one standing and because of this he had to be assassinated.
Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia
Saint Tsar Nicholas II was the last emperor of Russia and the son of Alexander III, who had reposed in the arms of Saint John of Kronstadt. Raised in piety, Nicholas sought to rule in the spirit of the Orthodox Christian faith and the best traditions of his nation. His wife Alexandra, a convert from Lutheranism, was known for her piety and compassion for the poor and suffering. Their five children were beloved for their kindness, modesty, and guilelessness. Amidst the political turmoil of 1917, Nicholas selflessly abdicated the throne for what he believed was the good of his country. Though he stepped down willingly, the revolutionaries put him and his family under house arrest. After enduring sixteen months of imprisonment, deprivation, and humiliation with a Christian patience which moved even their captors, they gained their crowns of martyrdom when they were shot and stabbed to death in the cellar of the Ipatiev house in Ekaterinburg in the early morning of July 17, 1918. 