The Failure Of The Romanov's Regime In Russia

The Romanov’s were the second and last ruling family in Russia from 1613 to March 15, 1917, when Tsar Nicholas II was forced to resign. His wife Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei were then put under house arrest in the Ural Mountains. The Tsar was forced to abdicate his throne when protests broke out on the streets of Petrograd, which is now St. Petersburg. Later that year the Bolsheviks took power in Russia from the provisional government and set up the world’s first communist state (History.com Para. 3). During his reign Nicholas II was disliked by many of the Russian people, which may be because his troops used brutal procedures while trying to stop protests. On the other side of things, people
They told their troops to do some inexcusable things more than once. One example of this is on January 5, 1905 when the Tsar's troops opened fire and killed more than one thousand people. They opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in St. Petersburg that was led by Father George Gapon. The demonstrators were trying to improve work conditions and establish a popular assembly. The killings caused indignant workers to go on strike and many peasants all over Russia sympathized with the workers. Thousands more uprisings took place, but were all repressed by Nicholas II’s troops. This caused Nicholas II to create and elected legislature called Duma, however he still continued to resist government reform (Biography.com Editors Para. 13-14). This caused increase tensions in Russia. The Romanov’s also put many unsatisfactory policies into effect. On Biography. com it says, “During World War I, Russia endured major losses and was subject to extreme poverty and high inflation. The Russian public blamed Nicholas II for his poor military decisions, and Tsarina Alexandra for her ill-advised role in government. Since Alexandra was originally from Germany suspicion started to spread that she might have deliberately sabotages Russia, ensuring its defeat in the war.” Around this time the Tsarina was tormented by ill-health of her haemophiliac son (Katy Turton Para 3) Alexei
In Russia today Vladimir Petrov, a lawmaker from Putin’s party wants to introduce a law that would “stimulate” the Tsars “return into Russia”. He believes that the return of the Tsars would “contribute towards smoothing of political contradictions” (Rebecca Perring Para. 3,9). Another way that the Romanovs are still relevant today is in movies. Many movies have been made about the conspiracy that Anastasia had survived. The use of making a movie about the daughter sparks people's interests and makes them want to learn more about the topic all around the