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The Great Northern War
The Great Northern War lasted for 21 long years. It was fought between 1700 and 1721, the years in which Peter the Great was the czar of Russia.
When the war began it was fought by Charles Xll of Sweden and a coalition led by Peter the Great. The members of the coalition were Denmark, Saxony-Poland and Russia. At the end of the war Sweden lost the power it held over the Baltic Region, which had fallen to Russia-who was now the most feared country in Europe and Asia. -
The Decembrist Revolt
On December 26th of 1825 some Russian military officers staged a revolt against Nicholas l, the czar at the time. However, that day in St. Petersburg the revolt was quickly taken down by the czar's forces.
The officers had revolted because they didn't like how he was so conserverative. After they lost, Nicholas l made new regulations to stop the liberal movement in Russia.
Also, they revolted because they didn't want the government to be ruled by a czar. They wanted a federal government. -
Czar Alexander ll Emancipates the Serfs
In the year of 1861 Alexander ll asked Moscow to consider freeing the serfs. To further debate this 9 committee's of gentry gathered in St. Petersburg where they agreed to emancipate the serfs. To make this a true statement, the legal document that actually freed them was called Emancipation Manifesto.
The serfs thought that their lives would greatly increase now that they weren't worked to death by their landlords. However, they were very much wrong. -
The Assassination of Alexander ll
On March 13th, 1881 a dreadful event occured at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Czar, Alexander ll was killed by a bomb in the streets, of which the bomb belonged to the group known as "People's Will."
To get the rightful justice for Alexander ll's death, his assassins were arrested and then hung.
"People's Will" was a group who were dedicated to overthrowing the czar. They had murdered officials and had already tried to take his life before.
Alexander's soon took the throne. -
The Russo-Japanese War
On the 8th of February, 1904 a war broke out between the Russian and Japanese Empires. Each of the empires wanted Manchuria and Korea, and a plea was configured by Japan. If Russia would recognize Japan as a sphere of influence in Korea, then they would recognize Russia as the dominant country in Manchuria, but Russia didn't accept the deal.
The war was very tough for Russia. They were losing on both land and sea, and even though they won some of the battles, Japan won the war on September 5th, -
Bloody Sunday
On January 22nd, 1905 a peaceful protest by industrial workers marched into the square before the Winter Palace. The soldiers of the czar, Nicholas ll felt threatened by the big crowd, and started to randomly shoot. Several hundred peaceful strikers fell dead to the ground, masacred. This event sparked the Revolution of 1905. -
The Revolution of 1905
This event was sparked by the public outcry of what had occured on Bloody Sunday. As soon as the news of what the soldiers had done to the industrial workers over 400,000 people started striking in various area's of Russia. The people started to hate Nicholas ll and they even killed his uncle, Grand Duke Sergi.
To make peace Nicholas ll issued the October Manifesto, but when his troops returned from the Russo-Japanese war he crushed the resistance, which showed who he really was as a czar. -
World War l and Russia's Envolvement
On August 1st, 1914 Russia entered World War l. The country of Russia responded to the war by making Nicholas ll seem like a god in a very patriotic way. In World War l the two places that really weakened Russia were Masurian Lake and Tannenburg, making the war a war full of loss and defeat.
Nicholas ll went to the warfront, leaving Alexandra with Rasputin. In the end, World War l was the beginning of Nicholas ll's downfall as the czar. Petrograd was falling to the people. -
The March Revolution
March 4th to March 12th. On March 4th workers in the largest factory demanded a 50% wage increase, but management refused, making the workers go on strike. On March 8th 30,000 workers were forced out of work without pay, which caused a huge strike in the city of Petrograd. On March 9th and 10th people got angrier when Nicholas ll refused to give emergency food out, and some of Nicholas's soldiers turned on him. On March 12th Nicholas returned to Petrograd and gave up the throne. -
Czar Nicholas ll Abdicates the Russian Throne
On March 15th of 1917, because of World War l, Nicholas ll is forced to abandon the Russian throne. Because of insurgents from Petrograd and an army garrison at Petrograd who joined striking workers Nicholas had no choice but to abdicate the throne.
As soon as the throne was abandoned the royal family was taken into custody at the Czarskoye Palace and where soon moved to another palace. Later on, they were assassinated and buried, which was to be kept a secret from the Russian citizens.