The reign of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. From day one, it was a complete disaster that eventually culminates in the removal of his entire gene pool and the communist revolution.
On the day of his coronation, poor planning led to a stampede that killed almost 1,400 people. It is known as the Khodynka Tragedy. Some people say the stampede was caused because they were running out of beer and pretzels, but I don't know if that is true.
At any rate, it set the tone for his entire reign. He wasn't a great guy, but no monarchs of that day were. But a lot of what happened wasn't his fault. He actually wanted to call off the coronation events after the stampede, but the ball was being hosted at the French embassy and powerful aristocrats demanded that he attend because insulting the French would be worse than looking callous to his subjects.
This caused his subjects to hate him from the day he took the crown. Those same aristocrats, because of pressure from a public that hated him, went on to challenge him at every turn making it impossible to function as a leader. He was probably an inadequate statesman to begin with, but it only made things worse.
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