Tsar

welcomed, it is not without problems, which my family and I have experienced firsthand. Peasants have been encouraged to the cities to work in factories and become a part of the proletariat, however we quickly learned the city is not as welcoming as the Tsar has led us to believe. The jobs are not bountiful, but I was lucky enough to acquire a job in a factory supplying materials for the expansion of the Chinese Eastern Railway, an exciting venture which will promote trade and quicker supplies…

Duma, the officially sanctioned parliament of Russia, forced the Tsar, Nicholas II, to abdicate on March 2, 1917. This was called the February Revolution because Russia followed the Julian calendar, 13 days behind the one used in all other countries. The Duma then instated…

started due to many reasons in Animal Farm such did the Russian Revolution but both trace back to one person, Jones and Tsar Nicholas II. In Animal Farm, Jones as it seems finds himself in the same shoes as the Tsar at the time of his reign, this includes having to face the rebellion and both shared the trait of being a bad leader and neglecting their citizens. The life of Tsar Nicholas II was very different to those in the working class, he lived a life of wealth in the Grand Kremlin Palace…

than the other. Their names were Julius Caesar and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. This essay is about Julius Caesar and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, because they were both leaders, but only Julius was the only one to become a dictator. Nicholas II and Caesar were both loathed leaders who were gruesomely murdered by political rivals. For Julius Caesar a defining moment in his life was the Gallic war and when he became a dictator. The decline of Tsar Nicholas II, began with bloody Sunday and ended…

continued throughout history. In 1976, Russian scientists discovered the bodies, but did not reveal the breakthrough until the fall of the Soviet Union (Keep, John L. H.). In 1994, DNA testing revealed that the bodies that were found were those of Tsar Nicholas, Tsarina Alexandra, three of their daughters, and four of the servants that were with them. The fate Alexei, the former heir of the Romanov dynasty, and the unknown sister…

In July of 1918, Nicholas II -- the last tsar of Russia -- was murdered, and the killer is still unknown to this day. The historical fiction novel, The Kitchen Boy, displays Robert Zimmerman’s hypothesis on the the events that transpired on July 16th, 1918. The Russian commoners rebuke the tsar for the way in which he is running the government. These civilians demonstrate their anger through rioting in the streets. Using these historical events, Zimmerman exemplifies a myriad of accuracies and…

1855-1881 Alexander II reigned and during his time he emancipated the serfs of Russia in 1861. After he reigned his son Alexander III did, and he ended this political reform efforts and returned Russia to an absolute rule. When Nicholas II reigned as tsar of Russia many had already disliked his powerful ruling. A small group of aristocrats held much of the power and wealth and the majority(peasants) had little power. However, in 1905 an event known to many as Bloody Sunday occurred and shifted…

Tsarist regime in Russia, under Tsar Nicholas II, survived the 1905 Revolution but not that of February 1917. Several important factors such as the economy, the government and the military, contributed the eventual failure of the autocratic monarchy in Russia. These factors influenced the people of Russia differently in 1905 and 1917. Some factors were not prevalent in the earlier rebellion but increased and changed over the period of eleven years. The way the Tsar dealt with each of these…

‘from God through the fury of the tsar for the sins of people.’ In the passage, the clique of Ivan IV who were instrumental in the implementation of the new order such as Vasilii Mikhailov Iur’ev and Aleksei Basmanov are represented as ‘evil men.’ The source also mentions that the tsar resided beyond the river in Petrovka, and his special corps oprichniki ‘walked and rode in black, carrying brooms in their quivers.’ This grim image caused hatred towards the tsar among the people and they signed…

His reign saw the dramatic fall of the imperial Russian empire. After the Febuary revolution of 1917 Nicholas was forced to abdicate the throne. In 1918, Nicholas and his family were tragically executed by the Bolsheviks. The dramatic downfall of Tsar Nicholas was the ended the Romanov dynasty in Russia. It ended autocracy as a political system in Russia and lead to the creation of the Soviet Union which went on to spark major tensions with the world in the Cold War. This historical turning…