The ending of the monarchy in Russia was marked by the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917. when the monarchy officially ceases to exist. This event took place during the Russian Revolutions, and was the consequence of the same, beginning in 1905, then Revolution in 1917. Soon after the abdication, the Romanov family was killed. According to the options offered the end of the Russian Monarchy is marked by the execution of the tsar and his family.
Basil I, also called the Macedonian and the founder of the
Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium, the dynasty whose rule was the most prosperous
time in the Byzantium history, started the revival of art and he ordered the
mosaic in order to, in his words, replace the one the impostors had broken.