2. ONCE A UPON A TIME...
There was once a family
Nicholas
Alexandra
Olga
Tatiana
Marie
Alexis
Anastasia
3. YOU MAY HAVE HEARD
THIS STORY
A fictionalized theory that
the daughter of the Tsar
did not perish with her
family but lived on and was
reunited with her
grandmother.
4. BUT REALLY THIS IS
WHAT HAPPENED
Tsar Nicholas II was a weak and easily influenced man. He
was influenced greatly by his wife, Alexandra and his wife’s
cousin William II, Kaiser of Germany. It was actually the
advice given by William about engaging in war with Japan
that forced Nicholas to make a bad decision which resulted
in the Russian Revolution.
5. THE KAISER’S ADVICE
William II, was for one, a crazy person. He was badly behaved in all manners of
court and also enjoyed being the Kaiser a little too much. Because he a more
experienced ruler then Nicholas he was at his cousin’s elbow at every chance he
could.
In 1895 Nicholas started his campaign of controlling more of Asia, egged on by
William, Nicholas captured a new port for his navy and also captured some parts of
Asia that belonged to the Japanese.
At first Japan was not to concerned with Russia, but when Russia decided to take
part of Korea as their own Japan went to war with Russia. Nicholas had played with
the idea of war but never thought it could ever happen. THroughout the war the
situation became worse and worse until Japan decisively won and completely
destroyed the Russian army, navy, and reputation. Millions of lives were lost.
6. FROM THERE...
Inn 1914, Russia engaged in war against Austro-Hungary,
because A-H had issued war against Serbia, which Russia
was sworn to protect. The Kaiser of Germany was very
upset at the juncture because he had an alliance with Austria
and wanted to be on the same side as Nichols.
Eventually, after a long series of back and forths between
Nicholas and the Kaiser, Germany went to war against
Russia, much to Nicholas’s horror.
This was the beginning of WWI
7. RUSSIA IN WWI
Russia was alined with France during WWI and was its
closet ally. The only advantage Russia had during the war the
amount of people in the military, in all other aspects it was
weak.
in 1915 after a huge defeat, the Tsar himself decided to take
control of the military, at home Alexandra ruled Russia with
Rasputin at her should.
This would be Russia’s downfall.
8. THE REVOLUTION
The Revolution started because of bad deciions made by Nicholas during the war
with Japan and his absence in ruling during WWI.
Alexandra, influenced by Rasputin also made terrible decisions so that in 1917 the
people revolted.
The main influences were the millions of soldiers killed in the wars and a famine
throughout Russia.
Groups of radicals used the revolution to their advantage to convince the public
that the ruling family needed to leave in order for the country to work again.
9. MORALS
Overall, it seems that with all of the destruction Nicholas
and Alexandra caused in Russia, their deaths do not seem as
undeserving.
A similar situation happened in France during their
revolution but the deaths of the king and queen seem more
justified in histories eyes.
It is most likely that the death of the Romanov children is
why usually the Romanov’s deaths are seen as unwarranted.
10. THE END
This story was meant to portray the events leading up to the
Russian Revolution and displacing the misconception that
the deaths of the Romanov’s were not unjustified and
reiterating that their actions brought the downfall of the
Romanov dynasty and Russia.
This however does not serve the justify the death of the Romanov children, that is wholly unjustifiable
