Upon his abdication and the later abdication of his brother Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, Tsar Nicholas II family is moved to house arrest in Tobolsk. Upon the conclusion of the Great War, with pressure from nobility across Europe, Nicholas and his family are released and permitted a small amount of freedom of movement. In the great struggle of wills that takes over the fledgling Russian Republic, the Romanovs officially ceed nearly all of the formerly Tsarist property to the Russian Republic for distribution in exchange for their freedom and the goodwill of the European Aristocracy.