The last Russian tsar from the Romanov dynasty and his reign

The last Russian tsar from the Romanov dynasty was born in this world on May 6, 1868. It happened in the imperial residence, in Tsarskoe Selo. Nicholas from the early childhood prepared for the imperial fate. At the age of eight, the young prince began active development of the curriculum of the classical gymnasium, supplementing himself with courses in botany, anatomy, physiology, mineralogy, zoology and languages. In addition, an important place in the formation of the Tsarevich was occupied by military affairs, strategy, Economic sciences, political science, law and so on. Since childhood, the last Russian tsar from the Romanovs has discovered an attraction to military service. That, in general, was quite typical for the nobility of the time. Not yet a monarch, he went on a regular service in the Preobrazhensky Military Regiment.

The reign of the last emperor

Nicholas II ascended the throne, being 26 years old, at the end of 1894. Already events that occurred during the coronation, cast a shadow on the name of the last Russian Tsar. Speech about the tragedy in the Khodynka field, when a bad organization of the celebration led to a mass stampede in which more than a thousand people died, and tens of thousands were left with injuries. For this event the last Russian tsar from the Romanov dynasty was nicknamed "bloody". Unfortunately, the troubles of the Russian Empire did not end there. Most historians agree that the monarch was not a strong personality, often letting state affairs go by himself and not daring to take decisive action when the country simply needed urgent Transformation. By the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was increasingly moving towards becoming a raw material colony of Western states that had gone far in their technical, social and economic development. This has already happened to the once powerful Iran and Turkey, who also failed to rebuild their societies on the path of capitalist development. The last Russian tsar from the Romanov dynasty and subsequently repeatedly made mistakes, worsening the position of the state: this is a talentlessly lost Russian-Japanese war with the initially much higher potential of Russians, and an absurd half-attempt to crush the revolution of 1905-07 (bloody Sunday), and the assumption of a subsequent brothel In the state, the Black-Hundred pogroms.

Positive moments of government

At the same time, it should be noted that, despite the disappointing picture in general, the positive sides of this period can be found. It is quite possible to refer to them the reforms of Minister Pyotr Stolypin. This is especially true of the agrarian sector, where the head of government tried to create a strong layer of independent peasants (by the type of American farmers), singling out them from the centuries-old communities, and at the same time using them to develop land in Siberia, issuing free land allotments. Reform really began to yield positive results, but it was never brought to its logical conclusion, being interrupted first by the death of the main reformer of the state, and later by the all-European war.

The collapse of the empire

The last straw of public discontent was the failure in the First World War, which the last Russian tsar from the Romanov dynasty won only formally and only thanks to the defeats of the Germans on the Western front, where William II was forced to sign capitulation. The war exacerbated the resources of the country and the people, splashing out first in the February revolution of popular discontent, and later in October. After the first uprising, the royal family was arrested. Stormy months before the October Revolution, the overthrown monarch held, being a high-ranking prisoner, first in Tsarskoe Selo, then in Tyumen, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg. At the height of the civil war, the Bolsheviks decided to destroy all the representatives of the dynasty, thus depriving their opponents of trump cards in the form of legitimate pretenders to the throne. The tsar with the whole family was shot on the night of the sixteenth on the seventeenth of July 1918.