Essay On Tsarism In Russia

In this journal entry, I want to elaborate on the different attitude towards the Tsarist annexation of the Baltic territories among the different ethnical and cultural communities. Especially, the Livonian nobility supported Peter the Great`s conquest of Swedish Livonia during the Nordic reason. For, Peter the Great provided the local nobility and citizens with cultural and political and cultural autonomy in the two new established gubernnia, namely Lieflandskaya gubernia and Estlandskaya gubernia, including the recognition of the German language as official language and the constitution of Ritterschaften. On the other side, the preserving and extension of the local elites` privileges did not affect the life of the mostly enserfed peasantry to a great extent. In general, the two German dominated gubernnias were peaceful and loyal to the Tsar till the February revolution of 1905. They became one of the most industrialized region of the Russian empire during the era of
1830-1831 and 1863, token place in the territories of former Polish-Lithuania against the ruling of the Russian empire. Surely, one of the main reason for the dissatisfaction with the Russian dominance was related to Nikolaus the First`s attempt to strengthen the Russian influence on former Polish-Lithuania. Seeing Lithuania, it is notable that the revolutionaries in Lithuania were unsure, whether they should seek for a united Polish-Lithuania or an independent Lithuania . Also, the peasantry were in doubt about supporting the revolution, since “the gentry were uninterested in any kind of agrarian reform’’. We see that the agrarian question had a crucial impact on the political position of the peasantry. So long the peasants had not the feeling that they would benefit from the restoration of independence, it was easier for the Russian empire to consolidate its ruling over former Polish-Lithuania against the disempowered