Czar+Nicholas+II



Czar Nicholas II was the last Romanov Emperor of Russia from 1868-1917. He asumed the throne after the death of his fairy young father. Since his fathers death was so sudden it left Nicholas unprepaired for his future tasks. He stated that he intended to maintain the countries autocratic system even though he prefer a system constitutional monarchy. Nicholas was charming but not an effective ruler. He was easily influenced by his wife, Alexandra. Alexandra became largly dependant on the advice of Grigori Rasputin, there family monk and mystic. Rasputin helped condense the pain there youngest son, Alexie was having while struggling with hemophilia. Rasputin seamed to help so Alexandra became more and more dependent on his advice and he eventually was giving advice on political matters as well. When Russia went to war with Germany they were unprepaired and Nicholas felt it was his duty to lead his army himself. Nicholas became camander-in-chief in September 1915. This left political matters to his wife, Alexandra who was being influenced by the advice of Rasputin. Nicholas was unaware that rumors were beggining to uset the common people. People were starting to talk of Alexandra's dependance on Rasputin and the fact that she was German by birth. The people were getting upset because, Russia was loosing the war and monarchy was suffering. Resputin was murdered in December 1916 by a group of courtiers. After Rasputins death the military failure led to riots and strikes. Nicholas and his family were confined to the royal residance by the government. They were removed from the capital to Tobolsk and then exicuted by firing squad in the basement of the Ipatiev house. There bodies were desposed of in a mindshaft.

Relation to Chapter Two Of Animal Farm

Old Major dying is like the death of Alexander the III, Nicholas's father. Napoleon and Snowball are sort of like Alexandra and Resputin. I feel like Mr.Jones is Germany. Mr.Jones is trying to control the animals on the farm, and they aregoing to fight back. At the same time the other animals question what Napoleon and snowball are saying just like the people of Russia questioned what Alexandra and Resputin were doing in the monarchy.