Nicholas I of Russia

Russian Revolution Writing Assignment Within the year of 1917, two revolutions took place in the country of Russia. The two revolutions were known as the February Revolution and the October Revolution. The first revolution happened in February of 1917, the Autocracy that was ruling Russia was overthrown and a provisional government was put in its place. The Second revolution happened in October 1917, the provisional government was overthrown and dismantled by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks…

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…

Decembrists were Russian revolutionaries and majority of them were army officers that returned to Russia with liberal ideas picked up in France following Napoleonic Wars (lecture, 10/5). Decembrists made a mistake of thinking that Nicholas I would be receptive to their ideas. However, he was a conservative. This one of the reasons to why the Decembrist uprising against the tsar Nicholas. Catherine's Legislative Commission of 1767 also played an important in this uprising. One of the commissions…

the Russian Revolution to occur. With the revolution Russia became the Soviet Union. The Emperor Nicholas II and the Tsar's regime were brought to an end and replaced by the provisional government and later by the dictatorship of Lenin. It was a beginning of era for Russia and other countries in the world. It all started with the revolution that occurred in 1905. Russia was ruled by Nicholas II, a Tzar. The Tzar had the total power over Russia and its people, commanded the army, controlled the…

A century ago, in front of the Korea’s coastal waters, Japan and Russia had conflict over interests in Manchuria and the Korean peninsula, which is called Russo-Japanese War. At that era, Russian government was an imperial power and had many rebelling against the leader Czar Alexander II. After the incident, Czar Nicholas II obtained the sovereignty of Russia. However, because of too much internal revolution in Russia, they had to struggle with unstabilized government during the war. However,…

Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas II at the time. He believed in a system of government whereby one person has absolute power, or autocracy. Russia was becoming industrialized very rapidly, which brought about low paying positions and a massive rate of unemployment. Nicholas II was very poor at managing important aspects of society such as politics and the military. World War I was not playing out the way the Russians had intended and the general population blamed Nicholas II because of it. The…

started wars in order to gain more territory until he was defeated by a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. In the result of these Napoleon actions Russia, Prussia, Austria, Britain, and France formed the Congress of Vienna to find a solution to restore the balance of power which Napoleon had disrupted. Later on, in 1815, they sought a solution to prevent liberalism and nationalism from…

born 9 September 1828 in Yasnaya Pollyanna, Russian Empire, and died 20 November 1910, in Astapovo, Russian Empire. Characters: The story consists of five noble families. The Bezukhovs, The Rostovs, The Bolkonskys, The Kuragins, and The Drubetskoys. I think the protagonist was Pierre Bezukhovs, and the antagonist was Napoleon, and the War. Setting: War front and home front. It begins in 1805 in St. Petersburg, and ends in 1812. Plot: War and Peace…

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…

First, shortly after the marriage of Nicholas and Alix, the Russian people began to have a certain distaste for Alix simply because of her German heritage. In fact, the people of Russia even gave her crude nicknames to demonstrate their hatred towards her. People typically overlook the fact that Alix was a loving mother and wife, who attempted to do what was best…