This question can shock many. However, the last emperor of the Russian Empire really had a tattoo.
A dragon was tattooed on the king's right forearm. Nikolai made a tattoo in 1891 in Japan, when, as a prince, he traveled around this country.
At one of the official events, the Tsarevich turned to the Japanese with a request to introduce him to the local tattoo masters, about whose art he had read in a tourist guide. The very next day, a tattoo artist from Nagasaki tattooed the right forearm of the Russian Tsarevich. The operation lasted seven hours. Nikolai Aleksandrovich acquired the image of a black dragon with yellow horns, green legs and a red belly.
Interestingly, 10 years before this, the dragon tattoo on his trip to Japan was made by the cousin of Nicholas II - King George V (then the Duke of York), who looked like two drops of water like the last Russian monarch.
Conspiracy theorists began to say that there was a secret order of the Dragon, which included representatives of the imperial houses of Europe. Allegedly, this secret society even unleashed the First World War. But in fact, Tsarevich Nicholas simply followed the fashion for tattoos, which at that time spread among young European aristocrats.