The last Russian emperor Nicholas II was recognized in Ukraine as the "embodiment of the policy of Russian imperialism", it became clear from materials of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.
According to the law, local authorities are obliged to "decommunize" and remove from public spaces in Ukraine everything related to the Russian monarch.
Earlier, the Institute of National Remembrance compiled and published a list of Russian political and cultural figures, as well as historical events considered "imperial" and subject to "decommunization". It includes the entire Romanov family. The list also includes Ivan Susanin, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Gavriil Derzhavin, Ivan Bunin, Yuri Olesha, Yevgeny Petrov, the conqueror of Siberia ataman Ermak Timofeevich, naval officer Pyotr Schmidt, one of the leaders of the Ochakov Uprising of 1905, the tsarist ambassador to the Pereyaslavl Rada Vasily Buturlin, as well as the battles of Borodino and Poltava.
The renaming of streets and the fight against monuments to Soviet and Russian figures in Ukraine began in 2015 after the adoption of the so-called decommunization law. Since 2022, this policy has significantly intensified. Monuments are being demolished across the country, streets named after Russian writers, artists, and scientists are being renamed, and references to the contribution of the Soviet people to the victory in World War II are being removed.