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Alexander I
Inherited the throne in 1801. He eased censorship and promoted education. He also talked about freeing the serfs. In 1812 he had drawn back from reform. Since he feared losing the support of nobles, at the Congress of Vinna, he joined the opposing liberal and nationalist impulser. -
Decembrist Revolt
Army officers led an uprising known as the Decembrist Revolt. They demanded a constitution and other reforms. Nicholas I suppressed it. -
Alexander II
Went into throne in 1855. In 1861 he issued a royal decree that required emancipation, or freeing the serfs. It didnt work out, the serfs were too poor to buy any land.He also set up a system of local government. The elected assemblies called zemstvos were made responsible for matters like road repair, schools, and agriculture. On March 1881 terrorists hurled two bombs at Alexander's carriage. "czar emancipation" was killed. -
Alexander III
Alexander III responed to his father's assassination by reviving harsh methods of Nicholas I. To wipe out liberals and revolutionaries, restored strict censorship, and exiled critics to Siberia. He also made a program of Russification witch is one language, Russian, and one church, Russian Orthodox Church. They even allowed pogroms, violent mob attacks on jews. Gangs beat and killed Jews and the police did nothing. -
Bloody Sunday
The czar fled palace and called soldier in. Whoever came by would get killed. -
Revolution of 1905
Peasants revolted and demanded land. At the end Nicholas was forced to announce sweeping reforms. In the October Manifesto he promised "freedom of person, conscience, speech, assembly, and union" He also agreed to summon a Duma, or elected national legislature. No law declared would go into effect without approval by the Duma. -
Peter Stolypin
A governor and later prime minister. He used harsh measures to silence opposition. More than 1,000 suspected terrorists were executed in less than a year. The noose used to hang them came to be known as "Stolypin's necktie". Peter was assassinated in 1911 -
Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin)
He started a revolution. Nicholas had to step down of office and Lanin steps in.
