On January 5, 1905, Father George Gapon led a big but peaceful demonstration of workers in St. Petersburg. The workers urged Nicholas to make working conditions better and make a popular …show more content…
I returned to the house immediately (only two or three minutes having elapsed) and upon entering the room where the execution had taken place, I saw that all the members of the Tsar's family were lying on the floor with many wounds in their bodies. The blood was running in streams. The doctor, the maid and two waiters had also been shot. When I entered the heir was still alive and moaned a little. Yurovsky went up and fired two or three more times at him. Then the heir was still." ("The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918 - EyeWitness to History." )
The effect of Nicholas the second of being in power was that Russia was in a big hole. A Lot of people died and all they could do was protest but all that did was kill more of the people. That is why Nicholas and his family were killed and that's why Bolsheviks overthrew him. Nicholas the second was executed on July 6, 1918 with his wife and and children. He was the last Tsar of Russia under the Romanov rule. He was known as “Bloody Nicholas” because of the way he handled Bloody Sunday. His role in World War 1 and Bloody Sunday led to his