Nicholas+II

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 * Tsar ﻿Nicholas II **

=Background and Biography =
 * **Born near St. Petersburg, Russia on May 18th, 1868 (Waldron, 2004) **
 * **Father, [|Alexander Alexandrovich] and Mother, [|Marie Feodorovna] ****(Waldron, 2004) **
 * **Married Princess Alexandra of Hesse in 1894 ****(Waldron, 2004) **
 * **Had five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei ****(Waldron, 2004) **
 * **Ruled Russia from 1894-1917 ****(Waldron, 2004) **
 * **Him and his family murdered on July 17th, 1918 (Litwin, 2002) **
 * ** Last Tsar of Russia (Litwin, 2002) **

=** Ruling Russia **=
 * ** Took the throne in 1894 after his father's death (Keep, 2010) **
 * ** Unprepared for the responsibility of the throne **
 * ** Broad education did not help with ruling country **
 * ** Had difficulty grasping the complexities of economics and politics **
 * ** Believer in autocracy, meaning one person ruling a nation (Waldron, 2004) **
 * ** [|Russo-Japanese War] **** (Waldron, 2004) **
 * ** Japan attacked Russia after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad was ordered by Nicholas II in 1904 **
 * ** Russia suffered a great loss and showed his inability to rule **
 * ** [|"Bloody Sunday"] **** (Waldron, 2004) **
 * ** January 9, 1905, group of citizens came to St. Petersburg to find Nicholas II **
 * ** They were protesting for better working conditions, political changes, and a popular representative assembly **
 * ** Nicholas' troops opened fire and killed over a thousand people **
 * ** World War I (Keep, 2010) **
 * ** Exposed Nicholas' weaknesses again **
 * ** Spent most of his time away from capital after August 1915 **
 * ** Left ruling in the hands of his wife and an assistant, [|Rasputin] **
 * ** High inflation, food shortages, and many roits developed in Febuary 1917 which contested the war and the monarchy **
 * ** Failure to make immediate decisions cost him the throne on March 2, 1917 **

=** Abdication and Death **=
 * ** Nicholas placed under house arrest by the new Provisional Government at Tsarskoe Selo (Keep, 2010) **
 * ** He and his family moved to the town of Tobolsk ****(Waldron, 2004) **
 * ** After [|Bolshevik Revolution]in October 1917, imperial family in more danger ****(Waldron, 2004) **
 * ** Family moved again to Yekaterinburg in April 1918 ****(Waldron, 2004) **
 * ** Orders to kill family from Bolshevik government came in July, entire family shot on July 17, 1918 (Keep, 2010) **

= **Parallels Between Mr. Jones and Nicholas II﻿ **  =


 * __**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mr Jones **__ || __**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tsar Nicholas **__ ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes” (pg. 3) ** || **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He was incapable of controlling Russia and handling politics. (Keep, 2010) ** ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed…He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of number 6 shot into the darkness” (pg. 10) ** || **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This represents “Bloody Sunday” where the tsar’s men opened fire in a protesting crowd in order to calm the group. (Waldron, 2004) ** ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“…after Mr. Jones was asleep, [the animals] held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others” (pg. 12) ** || **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While Nicholas II was away from the capital during World War I, the people of Russia grew more irritated with the monarchy. (Keep, 2010) ** ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days. He had become much disheartened after losing money in a lawsuit, and had taken to drinking more than was good for him” (pg. 13) ** || **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The lawsuit Mr. Jones struggled with represents the Nicholas’s problem with the Russo-Japanese War. The war showed the tsar weaknesses. (Waldron, 2004) ** ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Mr. Jones went into Willingdon and got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday. The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals” (pg. 13) ** || **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The tsar left ruling Russia up to his wife and assistant while away from the capital. Both Alexandra and Rasputin failed to take care of the country’s people. (Waldron, 2004) ** ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Jones and his men suddenly found themselves being butted and kicked from all sides. The situation was quite out of their control” (pg. 14) ** || **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Revolts occurred after the tsar attempted to control the country again upon returning. (Keep, 2010) ** ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“And so, the Rebellion had been successfully carried through: Jones was expelled, and the Manor Farm was theirs” (pg. 14) ** || **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nicholas was the last tsar of Russia and forcefully removed. (Litwin, 2002) ** ||

= **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">References ** =


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keep, J. L. H. “Nicholas II.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010. Retrieved December 06, 2010, from [] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Litwin, P. (2002, Spring). The Russian Revolution. Retrieved from [] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Waldron, P. "Nicholas II." Encyclopedia of Russian History. 2004. Retrieved December 06, 2010, from [] **

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