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Alexander III is known as the czar peacemaker because under his rule the empire remained at peace except for minor, although costly, military missions in central Asia. Relations with England were greatly improved, and France replaced Germany as Russia's ally. He died on October 20 1894. Had enacted to further the modernization and democratization of Russia.
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Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia under Romanov rule. His poor handling of Bloody Sunday and Russia's role in World War I led to his abdication and execution.
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Following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China. The Russian fleet was decimated.
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On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Many people died.
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It was created by the leader of the ruling Tsarist regime Tsar Nicholas II in 1905 when the government was desperate to divide the opposition during an uprising. Established the first provisional government.
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Rasputin was murdered during the early morning on 30 December 1916 at the home of Felix Yusupov. He died of three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead.
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Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers; when fully mobilized the Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldiers. the Russian Empire sent an ultimatum to Vienna warning Austria-Hungary not to attack Serbia
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In March 1917 the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were first held at the Czarskoe Selo palace then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk.
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Following the 1917 Revolution, four socialist republics were established on the territory of the former empire. On December 30, 1922, these constituent republics established the U.S.S.R.
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Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma. The official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. This caused Stalin's rise to power.
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In 1900 he was sentenced to four years in exile in Siberia. Because of their marriage Trotsky and his wife were allowed to be exiled to the same location in Siberia. They were exiled to Ust Kut and the Verkhoyansk in the Baikal Lake region of Siberia. He played a vital role in the win for Bolsheviks.