The Tsar

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  • Created by: saanjh
  • Created on: 10-03-13 07:07

(b. 1868, d. 17th July, 1918)

Strengths

  • Good at heart - genuinely tried to improve living conditions for his people
  • Family man 

Weaknesses

  • Despised opposition
  • Despised democracy; believed it would lead to the fall of Russia
  • Was in support of death penalty and capital punishment
  • Unpopular, because he didn't really do much
  • Violent
  • Anti-Jew: established pogroms, which were religious purges against them

Personality+Family

  • Very religious
  • Short
  • Put family before governance
  • Having never come from an underprivileged background, he didn't know what it was like to be poor. Therefore, he was only informed of Russia's problems through people a step lower who were all too keen on shielding him from what lay outside. 
  • Wife is a German - people then thought that he was a traitor, given that they were fighting against Germany
  • Son Alexei had hemophilia - only heir, since he had three daughters.
  • Assassinated in Ekaterinburg, the Ipatiev house, while the civil war raged on and the whites were losing. 

WWI - WHEN THE TSAR

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