Russian Revolution

By 17gprice
  • Feb 3, 1547

    Anastasia Zakharyina, married Ivan IV

    First Romanov to assume power

  • Nicholaus I popularizes censorship in Russia

    He had Taras Shevchenko exiled to Siberia for writing a poem mocking the Czar, his wife and his foreign policy.

  • Alexander II frees all serfs

    He became known as Alexander the Liberator

  • Vladimir Lenin was born

  • Lenin's brother was executed

    This began his contempt for the standing governemnt of Russia

  • Russia loses the Russo- Japanese war

    This creates unrest in the Russia population

  • Russia joins WWI

    This would lead to be a war that killed a huge amount of the Russian population and caused country wide famine

  • Nocholas II was executed as the last Czar of Russia