Russian Revolution

1905 revolution

RUSSIA IN 1915 Nicholas & AlexandraNicholas & Alexandra : : The Last Imperial Family of The Last Imperial Family of Czarist RussiaCzarist Russia

RUSSIA DURING WORLD WAR I (1915)

--FACTORIES COULD NOT TURN OUTENOUGH SUPPLIES--TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM BROKEDOWN AND MATERIALS DID NOT REACH THE FRONT--MANY SOLDIERS HAD NO RIFLES AND NO AMMUNITION-- BADLY EQUIPPED AND POORLY LED--CASUALTIES NEAR 2 MILLION

IN A PATRIOTIC GESTURE CZAR NICHOLAS II GOES TO THE FRONT

MISTAKE!!!!!MISTAKE!!!!!

--NO MORE COMPETENT THAN GENERALS--LEFT DOMESTIC AFFAIRS TOALEXANDRA

--ALEXANDRA KNEW LITTLE ABOUTGOVERNMENT.--SHE RELIED ON THE ADVICE OF GREGORY RASPUTIN SHE BELIEVED HE HAD “MIRACULOUS POWERS” BECAUSE HE HELPED EASE THE SUFFERING OF HER SON FROM HEMOPHILIA.

--PEOPLE WARNED ALEXANDRA ABOUT RASPUTIN BUT SHE DIDN’TLISTEN!!!

--PEOPLE LOSE CONFIDENCE IN THEGOVERNMENT--RASPUTIN KILLED--WITHIN 3 MONTHS TOTAL CHAOSIN RUSSIA WHICH LED TO REVOLUTION

1917 Revolution- Tsar abdicates.

What do you do with the Tsar and his family?

Choices all have problems:

• Exile to another country

• Live as private family in Russia

• Death of the Tsar

• Others?

The Governor’s House, in which the Tsar Nicholas II an his family were quartered during their Tobolsk exile

from August through April 1918.

The Emperor would preserve outward calmness and resignation.

He read a lot of books and magazines, eagerly occupied himself with physical labour and would saw

and chop firewood. Younger children kept on studying – their

farther taught them Russian history. Sometimes amateur performances

were held.

Family told to pack to leave.Photos first - July 1918

They were brought into a room, lined up and shot.

The killers deposited their victims' bodies, which had been mutilated,

burned, and doused with acid to mask their origins. It would be 73 more years,

in 1991, before the remains would be reclaimed and the announcement would ring out: The grave of the last Russian czar, Nicholas II, and his family had

been found.

Eleven people were said to have been killed that day in July 1918 on Lenin's

orders. Nine sets of remains were dug up here and then authenticated using DNA. The remains of the czar's son, Aleksei, and one daughter, whose identity is still not absolutely clear, were missing. Did their bones lie elsewhere, or could it be

that they had escaped execution, as rumor had it for so long?

Did Anastasia survive?

Examination of remains.

2007In a forest near Yekaterinburg bones

were found. DNA show that the bones were those of Alexei and his sister

Maria.Today the bones all lie in St. Petersburg.

The Russian Orthodox Church made them all saints.

A cross lies on the site where they were murdered in 1918.

Today