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Czar Nicholas II was the last tsar to rule Russia, before ending the 450 year span of the monarchy. During the tsar’s ruling they had always been disliked by Russia’s citizens, however “Tsar Nicholas II faced a situation no other tsar had faced. Tsars had ruled during unpopular wars, but never a war as bloody as World War I.” (Waldron). When czar Nicholas II decided to lead their country into war one of the biggest issues was transporting supplies to the troops and the rest of the country. Therefore

Alexander the Great is said to be one of the greatest conquerors of all time, and yet, his significance in battle showed up late in his life. His early years were spent in poverty, and as the years progressed, his dream of being a war hero grew dimmer and dimmer.Ironically, while he was later known as a war hero, he was still feared by all because of his reputation as a drinker and murderer. But first, his background. He was born in 356 BC. His parents were Philip, the brother of King Perdiccas III

Tsar Alexander III's Reign The reign of Tsar Alexander II was one that demonstrated a great change in action, attitude and policy to that of his father, Tsar Alexander II, 'The Tsar Liberator.' Historians have long labelled Tsar Alexander II as a Liberal, reforming ruler and his son as a reactionary, oppressive heir to his legacy. Hingley argues that his thirteen years of reign were spent '...systematically destroying all of his father's work. The choice facing Tsar

Tsar Alexander II was assassinated during the midst of a reformation movement in Russia toward the end of the nineteenth century. At this time, the Russian lower class blamed Jews for their poor living conditions. When Tsar Alexander III came into power he was paranoid of being a target of an assassination. So he created a secret police to suppress civil and revolutionary outbreaks, and also introduced anti-Semitic legislations to satisfy the enraged lower class. Government officials managed to use

regions of France. Pope Alexander III’s Council of Tours in 1163 included a canon that called on secular authorities in southern France to seize the heretics and confiscate their property. Yet, two years later, the archbishop of Narbonne blatantly

into a country with internal problems and an ambience of civilian unrest. Alexander II realised the need to modernise Russia in order to prolong their status as a superpower. This stemmed from their defeat in the Crimean war. To modernise and industrialise Russia, a free workforce was needed and this could only be made available if people were freed from the land. This meant that Alexander II would need to somehow release the serfs from their owner’s land. Another reason

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is the building is the largest monument of Russian mosaic art. It stands on the shores of the Neva River on the site where on March 1, 1881 Tsar-Liberator Alexander II was mortally wounded by Nikolai Rysakov, a young member of the Narodnaya Volya ("People's Will") movement. Upon Tsar’s death, Russia suffered a devastating blow to the rapid advancing economical and social foundations and sent Russia back to the days of blood and Dark Age. Russian people not

Why did War break out between Scotland and England in the Reign of Edward I? On the 14th of May 1264, the forces of Simon de Montfort, Gloucester and the Londoners were set arrayed against the loyalist forces of King Henry III, Richard of Cornwall and Prince Edward (later to become King Edward I). The loyalists suffered a massive defeat at this Battle of Lewes and among those captured, aside from Richard of Cornwall and perhaps the King (Prestwich indicates the unsure nature of the King's capture

Nicholas II, and ultimately the collapse of the Russian Monarchy, all culminating in the 1917 Russian Revolution. Nicholas II was the first-born child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, and being so, his upbringing was a rather quite and isolated, though he maintained a close relationship with both his father and mother. In 1881, Alexander II, Nicholas’ grandfather (and Emperor at the time) was assassinated by revolutionaries, quickly making Nicholas heir apparent at the age of thirteen. Though

In 1881 a Jewish massacre occurred in Russia known as the pogroms, which is an organized massacre of a culture group. The start of the pogroms was after Tsar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia, was killed in 1881 and it was suspected that the murderer was a Jewish man. (Antin 72) For Russia to get back, they placed all the blame on the Jewish people and the only way to get revenge was to kill each and every person who identified with the Jewish religion. In this paper my goal is to explain what the