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Rasputin Assassinated
A peasant monk who was an advisor to the tsarina Aleksandra is murdered by a group of nobles such as Prince Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich and right wing politician Vladimir Purishkevich. He is famous for being shot four times(including the forehead), given enough poison to kill five men and and beaten mercilessly and still live, only to struggle and die from drowning -
March Revolution
Peasants are unhappy with the war against Germany. They fight with soldiers who eventually join them and they storm the Winter Palace. -
Petrograd Soviets formed
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Czar Nicholas II abdicates
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Russian Civil War
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Bolshevik Revolution
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Communists take control of Russia
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Lenin is shipped to Russia by Germany
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Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Royal Family is murdered
From August to July, the Romanovs are placed on house arrest and there restrictions gradually get stricter till they are killed along with their physician and servants. There is speculation of who killed them and who ordered it, but it seems that Vladimir Lenin is related.
