The Bloody Sunday Massacre (1905) of unarmed peasants, one of which was a child's mother, Stolypin's assassination and mass hangings of the assassins, a textile mill is burned and a pursuing police officer is too while chasing assassination suspects through it. Austria's archduke and his wife are assassinated in 1914 Sarajevo, starting World War I. Battle scenes include a military officer's suicide by pistol (no blood is shown) when he realizes that he sent his ill-equipped men to their deaths at the hands of better armed enemy troops, two demoralized soldiers skin a live rabbit, then shoot their commanding officer in mutiny. Nicholas' mother while visiting him tells how his father (deceased) would've "burned Vienna down, stomped on the Germans and shot all the strikers" to "bring Russia peace", Rasputin's 1916 shooting and fatal beating with chains, starving peasants breaking into a bakery and granary (1917's February Revolution). Numerous off-screen battle shootings but nothing shown of them, both WWI's and Russia's Civil War towards the film's end. Alexi tries to kill himself by sledding down a staircase while imprisoned with his family at Tobolsk and later struggles with a Red guard who tries to steal his gold necklace. A sailor hits the guard and is dragged away to be shot (the gunshot is heard off screen but the shooting is unseen). The film ends with the bloody shooting of the entire family without any of their corpses shown.