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Decembrist Revolt
Some 3000 soldiers stormed into Senate Square which is in St. Petersburg. It was against Nicholas the First because he took the throne without rightful authority after his older brother Constantine decided not to be a czar. They stood there and said they wouldn’t pledge their allegiance to Nicholas I, so Nicholas sent people to break them apart and eventually killed most of them and the rest were very badly wounded. -
Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Alexander II emancipated, or freed the serfs in Russia. The problem was that most of the serfs were still in poverty because they didn’t have enough money to buy anything for themselves, so most serfs had to work in factories which had horrible conditions and barely any pay. There were a lot of strikes for higher pay, and a lot of groups trying to get the conditions in factories better. -
Assasination of Czar Alexander the II
Alexander was walking through the streets surrounded by people even better than the Russian police. He was in his carriage trying to get back to the Alexander castle and someone threw a bomb beneath his carriage. It blew up the carriage killing Alexander and injuring several poeple around the carriage as well. -
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Russo-Japanese War
Russia wanted a warm water port in the Pacific Ocean for the navy and for trading because the northern water ports froze up during the cold winters in Russia, but the warm water port was in Korea which Japan had seized, so Russia went to war with Japan. Japan was much more organized and didn’t have to send supplies over long distances so the supplies were not a problem for Japan, but Russia had to send them over a long distance by train so most of the soldiers didn’t get many supplies so Japan w -
Bloody Sunday
A Russian Orthodox priests by the name of Father Gapon led some 200,000 people to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. They wanted more democracy, food, and job availability. This was a peaceful march but Nicholas sent troops to fire at the peaceful protestors and some 1000 people were killed or wounded. -
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Revolution of 1905
During this time there were a lot more strikes and more workers wanting better pay and conditions. By the end of January in 1905 400,000 workers were on strike in the Poland-Russia area alone. In February 1905, Nicholas II tried to create an economic system called the Duma to deal with all the strikes and unions, but the Duma had little power and didn’t do anything to help the economy at that point. -
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Russia in World War 1
Russia joined Serbia because they are like brothers who practice the same things, and fought against Hungary and Austria. Then Germany joins Hungary/Austria because they used to trade, and France and England join Russia. There’s a war with most of the European countries and Russia isn’t doing too well because their supplies for the troops and for citizens aren’t being produced fast enough so the people of Russia revolted in March 1917. -
March Revolution
All the peasants revolted spontaneously and weren’t peaceful, they were very violent. This caused the workers to join the peasants, or serfs, and staged riots in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). Nicholas II abdicates the throne and ends the line of czars, but Alexander Kerensky took over and made a few new rules: All Russian citizens were equal, Freedom of speech, religion, press, and assembly to all citizens, unions and strikes were now legal, and continued the war against Germany, Hungary, and Aust -
Nicholas II abicates the Throne
: March 1917: People revolt in Petrograd, which is St. Petersburg but with a different name. Nicholas gives up the throne after all his soldiers joined with the rebellion and took over the czar’s throne. Russia was based on unwritten laws that everyone followed and not by a czar, and there was freedom of speech & religion for all the people in Russia.
