Alexander II of Russia

conditions, lost their ability to have certain jobs, and faced extreme violence from their neighbors, the Russian peasantry. Emigration to America became a way of escaping these truly awful conditions and providing better for one’s family. In 1804, Alexander I created legislation known as the “Statute Concerning the Organization of the Jews.” This forced Jews to assimilate, at least partially, by forcing them out of their villages and into cities. Jews were forced to live in the area known as…

view, that the subsequent Russian monarchs found it difficult to adapt to the realities of Constitutionalism and the fact that the absolute power did not prove to be relevant anymore, particularly in Europe. Therefore, what was left for Alexander III and Nicholas II was to degenerate and retreat to the Muscovite doctrines justifying the existence of the absolute and omnipotent monarch, while almost patiently awaiting the dissatisfaction of their more progressive and visionary contemporaries to…

History.com Staff. “Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-massacre-in-russia. Russia was under the control of Tsar Nicholas II and they were in a losing war against Japan. That caused violence in St. Petersburg in what became know as the Bloody Sunday. Nicholas fell under the influence of a man called the mad monk, Grigory Rasputin, which caused Nicholas to make many bad choices. The demands for reform…

During the period 1855 – 1956 Russia was involved in many major wars, all of which played an important role in its development. With the exception of the Second World War many of the wars Russia was involved led to defeats for them and these defeats exposed the weakness of the Tsar or government in charge. War outlined the flaws in the presiding system and highlighted Russia’s faults, and thus placed a spotlight upon the shortcomings of the Russian leadership. Such pressure prompted the Tsars…

introduced passports and finally given them identification. This was a massive step from what peasant life was like in the 1850’s – where serfdom was the most dominant form of relation between the peasants and the nobility, meaning that peasants in Russia were bound under the rules and regulations of the higher classes and their freedom of movement was restricted. It is clear, however, that for the majority of this period, living conditions for an average Russian peasant did remain somewhat…

Industrialization of Russia The industrialization of Russia was an important time in history. For the Russians, anyway. The Russians started to industrialize and produced helpful products. The industrialization of Russia was an important time in history. For the Russians, anyway. The Russians started to industrialize, which seemed like a good thing, but later turned out to be a bad thing. Industrialization is the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. Such as going…

Chulalongkorn and Nicholas II: Differences but same destination The reason that King Chulalongkorn or King Rama V visited Nicholas II of Russia was related to the territorial conflicts during the European colonization under France and Britain. The Great Journey aims to protect the political sovereignty of Siam. He used the ‘pro-active’ policy as proving to the European monarchs that he was a modern cousin of European royalty. This stance served Siam from colonialism. The two nations shared the…

father: Alexis of Russia, his mother:Natalya Naryshkina and his religion was Russian Orthodoxy , Russia on 9 June 1672 and he died in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire on 8 February 1725. He became emperor of Russia in 2 November 1721 and he resigned in 8 February 1725 when he died, his successor was Catherine I. He reign the tsar of Russia 7 May 1682 and stop it 2 November 1721 when he became the emperor, the coronation was in the day of 25 June 1682, his predecessor was Feodor II and the…

School fee’s had been quadrupled by Alexander II , so many people could only manage a basic elementary education. Whilst the nobles continued to send their children into further and higher education. An educated peasantry would represent a threat to Alexander III’s position thus the system was maintained in this fashion. An example of the autocracy exerting it’s power over the populace was ‘Bloody Sunday’, January 1904 in which 96 protesters were shot whilst protesting over the Russian/Japanese…

The Crimean War occurred in 1853 when Russia invaded the Ottoman controlled areas of Moldavia and Wallachia. Then the Ottoman Empire alongside their allies, Great Britain, France and Sardinia, went to war against the Russian army and their quest to return the “Holy Land” of Israel back from the Ottoman Turks and return it to the Russian Orthodox. The French and the British were afraid of Russian expansion into Ottoman land, thus leading to their alliance with the Turks. Great Britain were truly…