The Romanovs

300 years of Tsarist rule ended in 1917 when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March after the first revolution in Russia in 1917. Although the Tsar abdicated in March, Russia was not taken over by the Communists until October 1917.

Nicholas II believed he had an obligation as Tsar to retain complete autocratic control over Russia as all the Tsar's before him had done. Both he and most of the peasant civilization of Russia believed that the Tsar was practically sent from God. Nicholas II believed he had to be true to that concept.

Bloody Sunday was on the 22nd of January, 1905.

The Czar was overthrown by the communist. He was taken prisoner along with his wife and their 6 children. They were taken to a site in the woods kept in a basement where they were shot. Later, their bodies are buried in a mass grave in the woods. It wasn't until the last 10 or 15 years that their graves were found.

He abdicated his throne March 15, 1917 according to the western Gregorian calendar. It was March 2, 1917 in Russia according to the Julian calendar it used.

Father capon led the protestors on the 22nd January in 1905 when they approached the gates to give the petition that was signed by over 150,000 people they were fired at and killed and this day was called bloody Sunday.

Tsar Nicholas II recognized that he could no longer simply use military force to prevent the Russian people from overthrowing him. Therefore he agreed to create the Duma, a democratically elected legislature that would be able to pass legislation that even the Tsar would have to abide by. He also signed the October Manifesto, which promised the Russian people greater individual freedoms. The Tsar soon reneged on both these promises. The Duma never became anything more than an advisory body and the new freedoms never appeared. This set the stage for the revolutions to come in 1917.

Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, died in the early morning hours of July 17, 1918. He was not killed during the Russian Revolutions in 1917.

Catherine the Great actively took part in the European history of the 18th century. During her rule, Russia participated in the partition of Poland (in all the three partition), built good relationships with Austria and Prussia. She made territorial advances at the expense of the Tartars and the Turkish.

East Germany was gained from WW2.

Stalin's goal was to create a buffer region between the western capitalist countries and the Soviet Union. Near the end of World War 2, Stalin could have driven straight to Berlin, but he chose to go south into the Balkans first in order to create a Soviet presence in Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and parts of Poland. He wanted Greece too but didn't get it because of British opposition. He set up communist regimes that were answerable to him in all but Yugoslavia. It became communist under Tito, but he would not knuckle under to Stalin. Communist governments which were Stalin were installed and which then became satellite states of the Soviet Union.

In the north, Stalin demanded and got from the Allies, the rights to impose Soviet power over Finland and the Baltic states, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which were traditionally Russian influenced anyway.

In the west, 3 months after the war in Europe ended, Stalin declared war on Japan. The Soviet Union regained all territory which it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War. The Soviet Union gained Manchuria, North Korea, most of the Kuril Islands, Inner Mongolia and other lands.

Russia was so poor because before the revolution there was not a lot of jobs out there until the revolution and people were changing there style

Mostly in St. Petersburg, the official capital- with Moscow the secondary one. He also had a palace in the small city of Tsarskoye Selo, where his family spent much of their time while Nicholas was in St. Ptersburg or Moscow.

Many countries in Europe have this Two-heads set-up including Spain (Barcelona and Madrid), Germany ( Bonn and Berlin), Switzerland (Berne and Geneva) and so on.Some people call St. Petersburg- with just cause- Stacy-Town, after Anastasia.

Vladimir Lenin ordered a detail of the Cheka, Lenin's secret police, under Commandant Yakov Yurovsky murder Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family in the early morning hours of July 17, 1918. This was done during the Russian Civil War in order to stamp out any hope of restoring the Tsar to the throne that the forces opposing the Bolshevik takeover of the government had.

One can find a short first hand account of the incident written by one of the soldiers, Pavel Medvedev, in the book "Eyewitness to History'" (copyright 1987 John Carey, published by Faber and Faber Unlimited in 1987) edited by John Carey.

I assume this question refers to Tsar Nicholas II, although several czars had been assassinated throughout history (Peter the III and Alexander II come to mind)

For example, Tsar Peter III was assassinated by a conspiracy of people who wanted the weak Tsar deposed so that the future Catherine the Great could assume power.

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The Russian Revolution Didnt Fail. If Anything It Sucseeded. The Tsar St Nicholas II Got Scared When He Found Out That He Promised Change.

1. He took control of the army, and therefore causing the defeats to be blamed on him.
2. He put too much trust in Rasputin and his wife Alexei, who the people thought were German spies.

Tsar Nicholas II sets up the duma and allows fredom of speech, press(newspapers), assembly and worship as well as freedom from arrest. A first only rich Russians could elect the duma but then the middle class was also given general suffrage. Russia therefore became a constitutional monarchy. This didn't last long however because Nicholas grew bored of the duma and issued the fundemental laws giving him outright control over the duma and so no real reform came from the duma. (this is only a brief overview of the results- but it is considered to be a 'dress reheasal' for the 1917 revolution that depoesed the Tsar.

cosmeticNot really, the political changes of implementing representative government were only . He was still an absolute monarch, he had to put down revolts prior to the bolschevic revolution. But even more than Nicholas, the people of Russia hated Rasputin.

The Russian people did like Nicholas the second. However they didn't like his German born wife Alexandra.

He was taken into custody by forces of the Provisional Government, with the intent that he would be exiled to Great Britain. Later, after the October Revolution, forces of the Bolshevik Party seized him and moved him and his family to the Ipatiev House at Ekaterinburg. In July 1918, he and everyone in the Royal Family were murdered in the Russian Civil War, to stop them returning to power.

He was succeeded by his son Alexander III, who was an ultra-conservative. The first thing he did was tear up his father's plans to institute a Parliament. Most of the assassins were apprehended and executed.

Last czar was Romanov, first czar was Ryurikovich

After the Pugachev Rebellion, Catherine the Great never fully recovered from the fears of social and political upheaval that it raised. Once the French Revolution broke out in 1789, the Russian Empress censored books based on Enlightenment thought and sent offensive authors into Siberian exile.