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The troops in St. Petersburg refuse to take oath from Nicholas I, and demanded the accession of Constantine. The rebellion was terribly executed, easily surpressed, and they fled immediately.
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The Emacipation was intended to cure the backwardness and want into which serfdom cast the nations peasantry. This failed, and most of them remained poor and land-hungry, and crushed by huge redemption payments.
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Vladmir Lenin was an architect of the Bolshevik Revolution, and was the first leader of the Soviet Union. At the age of 54, he died of a brain hemorrhage.
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After his father, Nicholas I dies, Nicholas II was bumped up to be Russia's new czar, in 1894.
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The Russo-Japanese War was a war that was fought between The Russian Empire, and the Empire of Japan. This was a war fought over for the dominance over Korea and Manchuria. Japan launched a surprise attack and siege on the Russian Naval Squadron at Port Arthur. The Japanese came away victorious, over the huge army of Russia.
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On January 22nd, 1905, Russia explodes into violence in St. Petersburg. Waves of strikes came, 100s were killed, and several more hundred were injured.
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This was a revolution around St. Petersburg. In the chaos of this event, the Russian Provisional Government was formed. This all went from 1917-1923.
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Russia's first move was made on August 22nd, 1914. With the huge amount of troops they had, they surprisingly only accomplished few successes. Shortly after, their army was completely surrounded.
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After 1914, in showing his inaffective leadership, he lead his country to a devastating defeat. After this show of inaffective leading, in 1917 Nicholas II was forced to abdicate the throne.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in post-revolutionary Russia was established, and named the USSR. This was a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation.
