What bad advice was Tsar/Czar Nicholas II given?

The question pretty much says it all.What bad advice was Tsar/Czar Nicholas II given?
In 1905 relations between Russia and Japan had deteriorated to a dangerous point, and there was talk of war. Nicholas was in fact in favor of a negotiated settlement and talks resulted in a compromise being offered by the Japanese, but Nicholas' advisers and generals persuaded him to reject the Japanese offer and declare war, which they were confident they would win handily. As it turned out, however, the ensuing Russo-Japanese War of 1905 was a devastating defeat for Russia, which lost much of its navy to the better trained, better equipped and better led Japanese forces, tens of thousands of its soldiers and large swaths of its territory. The defeat caused even more discontent in the country, which had been building for quite some time among peasants, workers, students and an increasing number of members of the armed forces.What bad advice was Tsar/Czar Nicholas II given?
Probably amongst the worst advice he could have possibly been given was ';Don't worry about the Bolsheviks,'; followed later by ';Don't worry - we're going to take a picture of you and the family.'; The first preceding the overthrow of his government and the next preceding the moment when he and his family were shot.