Catherine II of Russia

autocratic ruling of his father Alexandra III. The tsar’s education made him believed, it is right to have all control and power over Russia as “god” appointed him as tsar. He had absolute power meaning he can make laws, overrule laws, appoint minsters, and advise at will without being questioned. The tsar had many minsters that advised him about the affairs and policies of Russia yet he only took the advice that was appealing to him and never altered his policies. Many of his minsters described…

War has begun. The 28th of July 1914, will be synonymous with pain, anger, and destruction, and we will sit by in Russia and watch it all happen. We will sit at the top of the world and the depths simultaneously, watching from the highest seat, while our good strong men be sent away to die in the millions… If our Tsar asks this of me, I will go, and you; you will be in my heart until my end. I love you, forever and you live in my heart always. Here at the factory, they’ve been preparing for it…

At the end of the nineteenth century, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia reluctantly took command of an empire overflowing with revolutionaries seeking change in response to hardships. His shy personality, coupled with his lack of political education, made him unfit to handle the war-torn chaos that would soon darken Russian skies. Nicholas’ series of unfortunate, unprepared and uninformed decisions began with his marriage and would ultimately lead to the demise of his imperial family’s…

practice and were simply initiated to promote stability in the Russian Empire. Furthermore, Alexander II was reluctant to relinquish his absolute power. Combined with the fact that he displayed traits of an autocrat from time to time, particularly after an assassination attempt in 1866, these reasons make ‘Tsar Liberator’ an unsuitable title for him. Instead, a better term to describe Alexander II would be a ‘reforming autocrat.’ While, in many cases, he was genuine in his pursuit of reform, his…

This essay is about the defeat of the Russian Tsars during the twentieth century. A tsar is an autocratic ruler or leader. It all started on the year 1917 the date November 6 and 7. During the year 1917 it was the year of explosive political events. The leader of the Bolshevik Party was Vladimir Lenin. During that year there was a provisional government had been assembled by a group of leaders from the Russia’s bourgeois capitalist class. Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of…

The shared characteristic of strength led to a bit of struggle during the battles in Ivan IV Vasilyevich and Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin’s lives. Ivan’s strength was gradually built and also was natural because of his rough childhood, “He survived growing up in an environment of brutality.. both parents of his died when he was young. His father, Basil III died when Ivan was just 3. His uncle Yuri challenged Ivan’s rights to the throne which got him arrested and starved in the dungeon. His…

I of Tver. Later generations assigned other more illustrious pedigrees to Kobyla, however, they are highly unlikely to be true. An 18th century genealogy chart even claimed that Kobyla was the son of the Prussian prince Glanda Kambila, who came to Russia in the second half of the 13th century, fleeing the invading Germans. Indeed, one of the leaders of the Prussian rebellion…

Nicholas Romanov II’s Failures as a Leader Introduction For over three hundred years, Russia was ruled by the Romanov dynasty. In 1917, that monarchy ended with Nicholas II, the last tsar. Nicholas II’s father, Tsar Alexander III died in 1894 when Nicholas II was only twenty-six years old. Nicholas inherited the role as supreme autocrat of Russia, which contained one sixth of the world’s land mass and over a hundred and thirty million people (Nilsen). When Nicholas II’s reign started, millions…

order to get things accomplished quickly and efficiently. Autocracy in Russia can be seen as a progressive as: Peter the Great attempts to establish Russia as a great nation through reforms, Catherine the Great’s education reform, and her believe that autocracy is the most suitable for Russia due to its size. Autocracy could be used to improve Russia. We can see this when Peter the Great’s reform the domestic structure of Russia. At the age of ten, Peter the…

the society didn’t need to rule with bureaucracy. These absolutists included Catherine II of Russia, Frederick II of Prussia, and Joseph ll of Austria. They followed the acronym of TRAP where, “T” stands for religious views, “R” for reform of institutions, “A” for absolutism, and “P” for patronage of the philosopher. Each of these philosophers had different views on the consolidation of power from each other. Catherine the Great was very light to reform, Frederick the Great was the most…