Discontent among the peasantry Russia had no form of income tax. The Tsar taxed the produce of the peasant farmers to raise money to maintain his regime. The burden of taxation was so great that periodic riots broke out. The peasants of Russia had been freed from serfdom in 1861 by Alexander II.

Nicholas II (1868-1918), the czar of Russia from 1894 to 1917, was a staunch defender of autocracy. A weak monarch, he was forced to abdicate, thus ending more than 300 years of Romanov rule in Russia. Nicholas held customary commissions in the guards, rising, while heir apparent, to the rank of colonel.

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Peasant livelihoods were obliterated. Shortages in grain during the war resulted in many of the poorer land workers hoarding what they produced.

Bloody Sunday-why were people unhappy with the Czar? the people wanted a change in the government because they felt that the Czar wasn’t in touch with the people and their needs were not being met. War between Russia and Japan over the territory of Manchuria in China.

The incompetence of Nicholas II Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively. He made poor decisions that led to worsening relations with the government and increased hardship for civilians and soldiers alike. Nicholas refused to accept any reduction in the absolute power he held.

No, Tsar Nicholas II was not a fair ruler in Russia. His nickname describes it all “Nicholas the Bloody.” Also his oppression and violent executions terrorized the poor.

Generally Tsar Nicholas II is considered to have been a relatively poor leader. He tended to be authoritarian in his rule, causing many Russians to…

Author of Studies in Muscovy and others. Ivan the Terrible, Russian Ivan Grozny, byname of Ivan Vasilyevich, also called Ivan IV, (born August 25, 1530, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow [Russia]—died March 18, 1584, Moscow), grand prince of Moscow (1533–84) and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547).

Under his leadership there were two failures at war, as well as two large scale revolutions, calling an end to tsarism. His failure at a young age to grasp the full concepts of economics and politics did not bode well for his future in leadership, which he was not all too keen to inherit.

17 July 1918, Ipatiev House, Russia

Alexei Nikolaevich (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич) (12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1904 – 17 July 1918) of the House of Romanov, was the last Tsesarevich and heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire. After the February Revolution of 1917, the Romanovs were sent into internal exile in Tobolsk, Siberia.

Sometimes Alexei couldn’t even walk. That’s him and his ‘sailor nanny’ on a bicycle in Friedberg, Hesse, 1910. The most excruciating moments for the boy were when blood seeped into his joints. “Blood destroyed bones and tendons; he couldn’t bend or unbend his arms or legs,” said Nakhapetov.

The mystic healer Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was summoned to the palace to help the little tsarevich during one of his bleeding episodes, and he achieved marked success in relieving Alexis’s suffering.

The term tsar, a form of the ancient Roman imperial title caesar, generated a series of derivatives in Russian: tsaritsa, a tsar’s wife, or tsarina; tsarevich, his son; tsarevna, his daughter; and tsesarevich, his eldest son and heir apparent (a 19th-century term).

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In Yekaterinburg, Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty. Discontent grew as food became scarce, soldiers became war weary and devastating defeats at the hands of Germany demonstrated the ineffectiveness of Russia under Nicholas.