Why Is Nicholas Brov II Called The Last Tsar Of Russia

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” -Marcus Garvey History has an uncanny way of of showing the world a country’s greatest victories or more commonly their worst mistakes. The House of Romanov is not at all exempt from this and especially not Nicholas Romanov II, the last Tsar of Russia. Nicholas the Second made many mistakes but also had plenty of successes during his reign. His family life was brought heavily into light during his reign aswell due to their involvement in the political aspects of the country.
Russia has been apart of a multitude of battles and even wars. Nicholas had many of them during his time as the Tsar as well. There was the Russo-Japanese War, Bloody
Russia lost this battle and the result of that Japan got the Port Arthur. A treaty between the two countries was also signed. Soon after the Russo-Japanese war Russia had something else to worry about. On January 5, 1905, there was a peaceful protest going on in St. Petersburg. It was a group of workers with a man named, Father George Gapon who was leading the protest that were going to try and appeal to Nicholas to get better working conditions and higher pay to be able to actually survive in the country. However they never got to because troops opened fire on the group killing over one thousand people. This gave the protest the name of Bloody Sunday. Many people in the country agreed with what the workers were trying to do and started uprisings because of what had happened. Many of the uprising however ended in the same fashion as the first. In Russia there was the belief that the Tsar was ordained by God, Nicholas believed in this heavily, having said that because of all the peasant uprising he realized that he would have to appeal to his people to get on their good side again. Nicholas’s way of doing this was
At the end of Nicholas II’s reign the people of his country took matters into their own hands. Nicholas didn’t take care of his country in the way that he needed to be, Russia’s people were dying left and right and he sat back for a while then put the people through a war. Russia’s people were done trying to believe in a person who didn’t try to help them and wanted all the pain and death to end so they revolted. There were riots that lead the royal family to try and run how ever the people found out about it. Due to the overthrow Nicholas was forced to abdicate the thrown on March 15, 1917, and a new government was produced. Nicholas and the rest of the royals were forced to stay in a house in the Ural Mountains, where they were held for a few weeks. On the night of July 16, 1918, the royal Romanov line was exectuted by order from Vladimir Lennin. The execution of the Romanov’s brought on a new age for Russia under new rules and regulations by new rulers and leaders who brought their own ideas to the country and made it what it is