Tsar Nicholas II Research Paper

The snow falls heavily on January 30, 1905 and the light powder begins to cover the thousands of bodies that lay strewn, lifeless in the streets. Among the figures of men and women you can see, "children's corpses lay in the snow" (The Last Tsar of Russia). Tsar Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia. He was a family man with no desire to rule and did so poorly. He would have driven Russia into the ground had not been forced to advocate. Tsar Nicholas led Russia into many defeats and his people faced extreme poverty and poor working conditions. During Tsar Nicholas's rule more than half the population was in poverty and war was both unavoidable and unwinnable. Although Tsar Nicholas was not ready to rule it does not mean that the Tsar family was always so …show more content…
He once said to a friend: "What is going to happen to me... To all of Russia? I am not prepared to be Tsar" (Nicholas ii). As Nicholas's reign began so did poverty and poor working conditions. Apon seeing this, Father George Gapon organized a peaceful protest to go to Tsar Nicholas with a petition asking him to better working conditions(Biography.com website editor). He gave speeches in favor of the petition and at one in particular he said: " Supposing the Tsar will not receive us and read our petition?' And the crowd shouted back, ' then we will have no Tsar!" (Biography.com). The protest took place on January 5, 1905 but the Tsar would not receive them and an order was given to open fire on the marchers, killing over one thousand men, women, and children. Thousands of tiny uprisings sprang up and worker all throughout Russia went on strike. Nicholas was finally forced to sign a manifesto assuring a representative government and basic civil liberties. The rebellions came to a halt (History.com). Then Russia was attacked by Germany and began to take part in the first World War. Russia entered the war with the largest army in the world but in 1916 Tsar Nicholas