How The Romanov Family Affect The Romanov Family

Many people do not realize what affects the Romanov family had on Russia, and what an important role they played for its future. The romanov family is an intriguing topic for many different reasons such as when Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov ( Nicholas II) was a child, to the time he started his family, his ruling as Tsar, and the day his family was massacred.
Nicholas II and his father, Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov (Alexander III), had differences, but agreed only on one subject; Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov was not fit to rule Russia. Alexander III was “brutish despot” who ruled the people of Russia with Aristocracy. Alexander III saw his son as not worthy of the throne (Atchison). He worried that what he had worked so hard to accomplish would be destroyed by his son who had no lessons in how to rule a country. Nicholas II, as a child, was sheltered from his parents; and the Russian people’s point of views, or beliefs, and he developed an outlook toward his future with “honor, service and tradition” (Atchison). Nicholas enjoyed the military field and had an “excellent education and was perhaps the best educated European monarch of his time.” Nicholas II wanted to please
his father, but did not feel he would have the ability to do what was needed, or fill his father's shoes as Tsar. Nicholas II and his father both knew to be Tsar was going to have its hardships. When Alexander III died from nephritis, Nicholas II was afraid of his future as well as the future of Russia (Atchison).
Often times Nicholas II and his family would visit Germany, where he met Victoria Alix Helena Louise Beatrice (Alexandra Feodorovna or Alix). The two fell in love at a young age, and were married November 26, 1894. Before the marriage many difficulties faced the lovers, such as religion, and the disgust their parents had for the others country. For instance, Alix had to convert to the Orthodox religion before the wedding and Nicholas’s father was Anti-German. A year after the marriage the two had four daughters and a son each a year apart, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and their son Alexia. Olga was kind and helped those in need, but she had a temper as well as being “brusque,” or demanding. Tatiana was “elegant and aristocratic, and more formal than her sisters” ( Atchison). She loved fashion, writing, and meeting new people. Maria wanted a family and would “instinctively reach out and grab a baby out of a mother's arms and smother the child with kisses” ( Anastasia was intellectual, loved to joke, and compassionate. Alexi was the only son and was a hemophiliac, which caused him to be susceptible to bleed consistently. He inherited this disease from his mother who inherited it from Queen Victoria. Anastasia would comfort him and help him forget the pain by making jokes (Atchison, Biography ).
At the start of Nicholas II reign as Tsar, he felt that God had a “destiny” for him, and when making decisions he looked to God for guidance (Atchison).
Soon after becoming Tsar he would ask Alix for support instead of trusting the “bureaucrats and sycophants” (Atchison). Nicholis would shy away and find himself lonely throughout his reign (Atchison). Nicholas II knew that his time as Tsar would be short lived and his people had grown tired and angry with him. He believed the only reason Russia was still holding “at the seams” was because of the monarchy (Atchison). This led to the Revolution in February of 1917 which was an “uproar” (Biography). Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov on March 15, 1917 abdicated and was put on house arrest, along with his family, at the Ural Mountains
(Biography).
The family moved to Tsarskoe Selo from April to August 1917, to St. Petersburg, Russia, to Tobolsk, Tyumen Oblast, Russia, and finally to Yekaterinburg, Russia where they were assassinated in the basement, on the orders of Lenin. Many have said the two youngest of the five children survived, but through DNA testing and reconstruction of facial features it has been proven that Nicholas II, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexei, five servants and the doctor at the time were murdered in July 1918 (Hendrickson 10).
As a whole the Romanov family history was destined for a hard trail and to show others the difficulties in ruling a nation. Nicholas II was not suited to rule a country even with the help others.