The Family Romanov Rebellion

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The Family Romanov Murder. Rebellion, & The Fall Of Imperial Russia
Author: Candace Fleming.
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Topic: This book is about more than the last rulers of Russia, it is much more than that, a book of different views of peasants and their conflicts on their every day life.
Reading The Family Romanov, it has been a complete joy of reading about such interesting events in these people's lives. To Nicholas II and his grandfather and father, to his wife, Princess Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice of Hesse Darmstadt(which is now a part of Germany). Alix then was given the name, "Alexandra Feodorovna", their many attempts to have an heir to his throne. To the point at which they had sought guidance to do what is monitory
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He started a petition, Gabon felt that the petition would work. Knowing the Tsar being a good and loving father he would protect them from the greedy factory managers. Gabon begged for the Tsar to get the petition at two o'clock in the after noon. The next day, Jan 22nd 1905, on that morning, Gabon not knowing the Tsar is fifteen miles away at Tsarskoe Selo, they were walking down streets, he found himself the head of a mass march to St. Petersburg's Winter Palace. Gabon then informed the government officials about the march taking place. On this day, the snow was swirled across frozen rivers, workers organized themselves into processions. It was Gabon's plan to march them along different streets, meeting at the Winter Palace Square. Them wearing their best clothes 120,000 men, women, and children walked peacefully. Carrying crosses or icons, waving Russian flags or hoisted portraits of Nicholas and Alexandra above their …show more content…
He told Nicholas that the country was on the verge of revolution so potentially devastating. Nicholas had two choices, crush the rebellion or give the people civil rights, freedom of speech, and press, Nicholas recoiled at the idea of these democratic reforms. "The heart of the tsar is in the hand of God" Nicholas told his ministers any change would weaken the sacred, mortal power bestowed upon him by the Almighty. "I act in this spirit only because I am certain that it is necessary for Russia". Due to this Nicholas he thought it wasn't wretched that living conditions that had lead to the country's problems, it was the people that had turned against the autocracy and their holy tsar. He had thought God was telling the country that it needed a stricter

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