Tsardom of Russia

Drink. Anger. Sorrow. Drink. An endless cycle of the first Tsar of Russia, often all at once. A sick and twisted beginning, torturing animals, raping women, and drinking himself to death, the Grand Prince of Russia started here to end in almost the exact same place he started. Ivan the Terrible was true to his name, the first dictator of Russia was a cruel part of history that is never to be forgotten. Born in the Rurik Dynasty, Ivan’s father was Vasili III who died when he was only a toddler. His

But what was it that the citizens of Russia despised so much about Rasputin? Rasputin was viewed by many as a “puppet master” that controlled the Tsar and Tsarina. This image of Rasputin was widely used by the political opponents of the Tsar’s to show his lack of authority and his wife’s incompetence. The staunchest supports of Tsardom even found it hard to defend a system which allowed their country, that was in its greatest trial,

development of modern Russia in the years 1856-1964? The October 1917 Revolution is undoubtedly a momentous and extremely important event in Russia’s history, one that ousted the centuries-old Tsardom that ruled over the empire, in favour of the radical communist movement in the form of the Bolsheviks, headed by one Vladimir Iliych Lenin. However, did this sudden move from autocracy to a supposedly more progressive democracy actually bring about the modernisation of Russia industrially, agriculturally

on his death bed Alexander was committed to retaining the autocratic powers of the tsardom. However he was less of a disciplinarian than his father and was more open to the arguments of the other people around him.  He was deeply influenced by defeat in Crimean war and by liberal ministers, Alexander II undertook extensive reforms of Russian society and government. Alexander II made an attempt to modernise Russia and preserve imperial power and in this essay I will be discussing the ways and what

the extent to which this event affected Russia. Hence this is ‘perhaps the most defining moment in Russian history, with its impact being seen many years after the event itself’. Although historians identify short term effects of this event, the significance to which this event

and the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—Russia has flirted with democracy, but time and time again it returns to the familiar, authoritarian regime. Russia’s inability to shake the shackles of autocracy can be directly linked to the morals, culture and history of the country. In short, deep-rooted culture and history strongly influence the structure of government in a country. Today historical analyst has dubbed Russia a hybrid regime. A hybrid regime is a pseudo-democratic regime

against the autocracy. Alexander II’s response to Russia’s social and economic problems attempted to entrench autocratic power; the reforms were short-term solutions to a backwards society and by stoking discontent among the people, ultimately brought Russia closer to

in the bureaucratic anarchy of Imperial Russia. The entrenched social structure which forms the lives of Chekhov’s and Gogol’s characters often results in a depiction of the body as a home for deliration while they explore the themes of rank and hierarchy, divisions and oppositions, and misery and humiliation. Chekhov explores divisions and oppositions in the hierarchical society of Tsarist Russia. He begins The Fat Man and The Thin Man

both transformed the once great Russian Empire into a series of fragmented states. Nikolay Aleksandrovich was born May 18, 1868 to Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (Tsar Alexander III from 1881-1894). He was born to a noble family, his father being Tsar of Russia and his cousin being King George V of England. On March 1 1881, his grandfather was assassinated, making Nicholas the Tsesarevich, or son of the Tsar. Many said that Nicholas’s father never prepared him well enough for his role as Tsar. In 1894 Alexander

climate of autocracy, the Romanov dynasty was firmly established in the societal framework of early 20th-century Russia. Having been in varying degrees of absolute political control over an approximate time period of four hundred years, their eventual undoing marked a power shift polarising the imperial regime laid out by countless Tsars beforehand. Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, is recognised to have a degree of personal responsibility for the downfall of the Romanovs, yet the extent to