Although I have learned some things about Russia and the late 1800’s and early 1900’s this book taught me some new information. When Nicholas’s son was diagnosed with hemophilia ( a disease when the blood doesn’t clot properly) I noticed that they didn’t have a treatment or cure for it. Today, hemophilia still can’t be cured but, the treatments are: help from a specialist, medications, and supportive care. I think it is interesting how our medical world has developed from then to now. Another thing I found interesting was how during the late 1800’s how the government was controlled under the form of autocracy, when one person ( the tsar in this case) holds all power. I couldn’t imagine living under the rules of someone having no power, unlike
Almost everyone knows the story of Russian Princess Anastasia Romanov, but not everyone knows about her father, Tsar Nicholas II, and his role in his family’s banishment and death. The last Tsar of Russia was forced to abdicate his throne by the Russian people who wanted change, like how he is allegorized by Mr. Jones in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
After they defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, the English began to explore and colonize the New World. By the 1600s, the English occupied the eastern part of the New World. As reformations and revolutions went on in England, different types of people immigrated to different parts of the New World. Two distinct regions, New England and the Chesapeake region, grew to be different in economy, social and family life, and religious beliefs. The two different way of life created two settlements that contrasted and complemented each other. Though the differences between the settlements of New England and Chesapeake region are many, they are largely due to the different style of life and desires, such as economic and religious freedom, that led
Author Daniel Beer is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the Royal Holloway, University of London. In addition to The House of the Dead, Beer is author of another book, Renovating Russia: the Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity and has contributed on several articles about nineteenth century Imperial Russia. Beer exhibits vast knowledge, extensive research, and ongoing devotion to this topic. With the many articles and books he has written, international educational trips to archives and academies, and ranking as senior lecturer, his expertise and care for nineteenth century Russia is clearly demonstrated.
The book also shows how well was Holland and the rest of western Europe were more civilized and more modernized than it was in Russia, and also n this book it explains that if it wasn’t for Peter the great, Russia wouldn’t be modernized by it self as some of the Russian civilians would say.
However, Nicholas’s personality was not the sole reason why the Old Regime collapsed. Chubarov argues that “another Peter the Great could have saved the Romanovs and Imperial Russia. It is obvious though that the last tsar could not” . Nicholas’s lack of
The book The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming is an eye opening biography about one of Russia's most famous families. Since 1613, the Romanov family had ruled Russia, and were the last imperial dynasty to ever take the throne. Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra had five children, consisting of only one eligible heir to Russia. The author's purpose of writing this book was to explain the downfall of one Russia’s most important families. Candace Fleming wrote the book to give insight and share her knowledge on how the Romanov family witnessed and committed horrible acts of violence and stupidity which ultimately lead to their murders.
Within a few days in February 1917, Tsarist Russia came to an end. The Romanov family, who had ruled Russia since the 17th century, were overthrown and the monarchy crumbled. Traditional historian Bernard Pares argues that incompetent ministers and weaknesses of Nicholas II is to blame. While traditionalist historian Edmund Walsh blames the incompetence of the Tsarina and her mysticism beliefs. There are however many factors contributing to the Russian revolution of February 1917, such as: World War 1, political and economic failures. Therefore this essay will consider the impact of each factor in order to assess whether the winter of 1916-17 was the final straw for the people of Russia.
The beginning of the 20th century brought radical changes to the social and political structure of autocratic Russia. It was a period of regression, reform, revolution and eradication. Eradication of a blood line that had remained in rule for over 300 years; the Romanov Dynasty. The central figure of this eradication was Tsar Nicholas II, often described as an incompetent leader, absent of the “commanding personality nor the strong character and prompt decision which are so essential to an autocratic ruler...” (Sir G. Buchman, British ambassador to Russia from 1910 in H. Seton-Watson, The
The text “A Family Romanov” weaves the facts about the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, into a detailed story of the decisions he made, his family life, and those who were affected by his choices, the common people of Russia. Beginning his life as a neglected child, Nicholas II was born into a family who had been at the top of the autocracy for hundreds of years. After his father was murdered, Nicholas was thrown into this leadership position with no experience whatsoever. After reading this historical piece, I believe the author wanted us to know how the Tsar’s decisions affected the peasant class citizens of Russia, how the autocracy and
The last Tsar Nicholas II ascended the throne in 1894 and was faced with a country that was trying to free itself from its autocratic regime. The serfs had recently been emancipated, the industry and economy was just starting to develop and opposition to the Tsar was building up. Russia was still behind Europe in terms of the political regime, the social conditions and the economy. Nicholas II who was a weak and very influenced by his mother and his wife had to deal with Russia’s troubles during his reign. In order to ascertain how successfully Russia dealt with its problems by 1914, this essay will examine the October Manifesto and the split of the opposition, how the Tsar became more reactionary after the 1905 revolution, Stolypin’s
“I pity the Tsar. I pity Russia. He is a poor and unhappy sovereign…He is obviously a good and quite intelligent man, but he lacks will power, and it is from that character that his state defects developed, that is, his
Here, Rasputin steered towards the belief that the path to salvation lay through repentance, where one couldn’t repent, unless they had sinned, in order to get closer to God. This ideology invoked Rasputin’s sexual escapades and immoral conducts- a “voracious sexual appetite”, in which he “had a talent for getting under the ladies’ petticoats [while whispering to them] “you think I am polluting you, but I am not. I am purifying you” . Through Rasputin’s “superhuman thirst for alcohol” , and added sexually driven “intense grey eyes” , it was rumoured that “the tsarina had wild orgies with him”, and that he had captured her in his grasp. Although Rasputin appeared a pious and saintly holy man in front of the Royal couple, others saw him as a sex-craved peasant - “a dark force that was corrupting Mother Russia”, “who in the eyes of Lynch, a revisionist historian, who focuses of the role of people, was a ‘fatal disease’ inflicting damage to the Tsarist regime” - the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia since 1613 to 1917. Rasputin later through a revelation, claimed, that the Russian Army would fail in the First World War, unless the Tsar took control- a mistake which caused the downfall of the Russian
One resource used for this investigation was Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, which describes the reign of Nicholas II. This source was published in 1967 in the United States, thus the book is a secondary source. Massie is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose work focuses on the Russian Romanovs. Massie’s alma mater includes Yale and Oxford University. The source is highly valuable in its extremely detailed and comprehensive research of nearly 600 pages, providing the thoughts of those in positions of power and interesting, insightful perspectives to the situation at the time. An analysis on connecting causes and effects are thorough and
Rasputin was an imperative figure in the Russian Revolution. His acclaimed mystical forces helped decrease the indications of poor Alexei's hemophilia, a dreadful condition in which the blood doesn't clump. Since Alexei was the beneficiary to the Romanof throne, Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra were in a distressing circumstance. They gave Rasputin certain powers that individuals were desirous of.
As a social worker, it is important to have knowledge and be comfortable with addressing safety and crisis issues related to harm to self and others. That is why it may be important to attend workshops and conferences to educate how to address such issues. By doing that, social workers will be aware of what to look for when determining if the client is at risk of harm to self and others. As Alexia’s social worker, it may be a good idea to conduct a risk assessment which involves the process of identifying or ruling out any possible risk factors. If risk factors exist, social workers can determine appropriate strategies to help eliminate or control the risk factor. The risk-taking model can be appropriate to use for clients like Alexia where