![]() However, their power was severely limited. ![]() To control the surge of more protest, the autocratic leader conceded to allowing an elected assembly, the State Duma. Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser, Wednesday 25 January 1905 The people, seeing the dead and dying carried away in all directions, the snow on the streets and pavements soaked with blood, cried aloud for vengeance’. ‘The passions of the mob broke loose like a bursting dam. The Taunton Courier published a full report of the day. It was estimated that almost 2,000 people were massacred. The event would later be remembered as Bloody Sunday. Father Gapon was shot in the shoulder and the portrait was shattered by the barrage of bullets. The crowd’s leader, Father Gapon marched in front with a cross, a religious relic, and a portrait of the Tsar. The Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser branded the Tsar a coward and said ‘the blood of the slaughter is on his head’. The military was ordered to fire into the dense crowds. They planned to march to the Winter Palace, where they wanted to submit a list of grievances to the Tsar however, they were blocked by the Russian military. The crowd comprised men, women, and children of all classes. In January 1905, a general strike had begun throughout St Petersburg and on 22 January a demonstration was organised, led by Father Georgy Gapon. While Russia was at war with Japan, the Russian people had taken to the streets in St Petersburg in opposition to the Tsar. Hull Daily Mail, Wednesday 10 February 1904 By May, Russia was forced to end the conflict. At the decisive Battle of Mukden in March 1905, almost 90,000 Russian troops lost their lives. As the war raged on, the Russian military continued to suffer defeats. The Russian fleet was left disabled and confidence of the Russian people in their military declined. The conflict opened with a surprise torpedo attack from the Japanese navy on the Russian fleet in Port Arthur. The Sphere, Saturday 14 July 1900Īfter ten years of reign, Tsar Nicholas II was drawn into a military conflict with Japan between 19. That same year he abolished transportation or exile to Siberia as a form of punishment. In 1900, The Sphere believed that the Queen had a positive influence on Tsar Nicholas. The newspapers reported the many visits the Tsar made to England and events when the Tsar and his family met Queen Victoria. Empress Alexandra was also the granddaughter of England’s Queen Victoria. ![]() Within months, he married Alexandra Feodorovna, and together they would have five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. In 1894, after the death of Tsar Alexander Alexandrovitch III, Nicholas II was crowned the new Tsar and Emperor of Russia. During his 23 years as Tsar, Russia endured devastating defeats in both the Russo-Japanese War and First World War, all while the Russian people grew restless of food and fuel shortages and craved a democratic government. How did this monarch fall and a dynasty end? On the anniversary of Tsar Nicholas’ abdication, we will take a look through the British Newspaper Archive at the key events of Nicholas’ reign to understand how the imperial family fell to revolution. Russians of all classes were on the streets of Petrograd (formerly known as St Petersburg), and Nicholas’ own military had joined the ranks of protestors. On 15 March 1917, amid the chaos and fury of the Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor of all Russia, abdicated from the throne and ended 300 years of Romanov rule.
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