Saint Nicholas

Nicholas II was crowned king in 1896. However, he was given the throne without knowing how to run a kingdom. During this time the Russo-Japanese War was going on. Later this led to the Russian Revolution in 1905. Czar Nicholas II created the Duma, which is a “State Assembly”. But he always got rid of the Duma when they didnt agree. This made the public support the Bolsheviks. In 1914, Nicholas put Russia into World War I. This was a very expensive war and Russia was not in a good state to take…

Alexander II is known today as the “Tsar Liberator. He held a vision of Russia as a major world power, a Russia that was westernized, industrialized, and educated. However, his reforms did not go so smoothly. With many attempts to take his life were made throughout his reign, he was finally assassinated before the completion of his reforms in March 1881. Was the reforms he made deemed a success? The humiliation of the Crimean War had greatly exposed Russia's main problems, involving its lack…

The Assassination of Grigori Rasputin According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, “There have been 298 serious assassination attempts on leaders worldwide since 1875” (Belsie). Grigori Rasputin, a member of Czar Nicholas II’s court, was violently murdered by a group of conspirators on December 29, 1916. Grigori Rasputin had a reputation as a mystical faith healer who had influence on the Russian government. He was violently killed as he was perceived to be too close the imperial…

Nicholas II 's financial advisor, Sergei Witte oversaw this project and employed many foreign advisors, workers and designers from other European countries such as The United Kingdom, Germany and France. Witte invested millions of dollars into building roads…

Alexander II’s reforms changed Russia more than any other events from 1855-1905. The most significant of these reforms The Emancipation of the Serf’s freed the people from the land. Serfdom had long been seen as the symbol of the superannuated Russian system holding Russia back from real progress. The emancipation had some significant advantages for Russia: it created a movable industrial workforce, a better military it changed the structure of Society and it abolished it without Civil War or…

national problems in the Russian Empire to Russian nationalism and conservatism. In addition to this, he is a recipient of IREX awards for research. In his work, Monarchists Against Their Monarch: The Rightists Criticism of Tsar Nicholas II, he addresses the criticism of Tsar Nicholas II from the point of view belonging to the monarchists. Though there was a positive side to the monarchist movement, there was a very negative side to it as well, and they believed that the Tsar himself caused the…

aristocratic ties to the early fifteenth century. The original State Duma was demolished in the seventeen hundreds and was revived in 1906 after the crisis of 1905. It was a corrupt branch of government that was relatively ineffective on account of Tsar Nicholas II and his ability to veto any legislation passed up by the Duma senate. The original State Duma was established in the fourteenth century and consisted of the patricians of Russia. The princes of Moscow would meet unofficially with…

To what extent was Tsar Nicholas Responsible for the fall of the Romanov dynasty Tsar Nicholas was responsible for the fall of the Romanov dynasty and accelerating the russian revolution. Tsar Nicholas was a major cause of the downfall but his wife tsarina and Rasputin also contributed. The tsar left to the war which was already creating uproar in russia as it was weakening the economy, creating worldwide hunger and unhappiness throughout. Unhappiness lead to demonstrations that developed into…

I think he’s trying to get me into the duma, join his little group of Kadets that try and support the Tsar in a room full of critics. It’s a null game, honestly, I’ll support the Romanov’s until the line dies out, but even I can concede that Tsar Nicholas has never learnt from his mistakes, he consistently fails to make any progressive political reforms and the October Manifesto was seemingly a ploy to sooth the tensions that were brought to him from such as large majority of the population,…

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…