What happened to the Russian orthodox church after the revolution?

Answer 1

The aristocracy lost their aristocratic status and became an even lower class of person than the workers, soldiers and peasants were under them. All noble titles were abolished and all property owned by them was taken away from them. They were practically turned into peasants overnight.

Answer 2

The revolution was the culmination of a long period of repression and unrest. As Western technology was adopted by the czars, Western humanitarian ideals were acquired by a group of educated Russians. Among this growing intelligentsia, the majority of whom were abstractly humanitarian and democratic, there were also those who were politically radical and even revolutionary.

The land and homes of the aristocracy were confiscated in the revolution and most aristocrats died or moved. Now after so much years, A battle is under way in Russia for the stately homes of the country's former aristocracy confiscated by the Bolsheviks during the 1917 Revolution.

Officials in St Petersburg are seeking to privatise some of the palaces by selling them off to the highest bidder. However, some relatives and descendents of the Russian nobility want them back, or compensation from the state.

Answer 3

Many were executed. The ones who could fled the country

Answer 4

Those who were able to get away, left for other countries where many had family. Two of the main countries where Russian aristocrats fled to were France and Denmark.

Answer 5

The churches become shut down and the priests started to drink alchohol and give up on there belief