China's last emperor kept his title and palace after abdicating, and soldiers blew open his ancestors' tombs

Puyi became emperor at two in 1908. On 12 February 1912 the Empress Dowager Longyu signed his abdication. The Articles of Favourable Treatment let him keep his title, live in the Forbidden City and receive a large annual subsidy from the Republic^†. In 1924 warlord Feng Yuxiang expelled him from the palace. In July 1928 troops under Sun Dianying used explosives to open the tombs of the Qianlong Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi at the Eastern Qing Tombs and took the jewels buried with them. Cixi's body was left on the ground. Puyi later wrote that the looting turned him against the Republic^†. In 1934 Japan made him emperor of Manchukuo. He was captured by Soviet troops in 1945, held in Chinese prison from 1950 to 1959 and released as a gardener. He died in 1967. In 1995 his widow had his ashes moved to a commercial cemetery near the Western Qing Tombs.