Bloody Sunday as a Turning Point in the Romanov's Popularity with the Russian People

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Bloody Sunday as a Turning Point in the Romanov's Popularity with the Russian People

Nicholas II was made the tsar of Russia in 1894 when his father

(Alexander III) died.

The Russian tsars had a strong tradition of autocracy and Alexander

had followed this strongly. In part, this was due to his father,

Nicholas's murder by a Russian political extremist group after he had

started an "age of reform". This convinced Alexander to be more

repressive than his father. Another reason for his views and opinions

was his tutor Konstantin Pobedonostsev, who championed the phrase

"orthodoxy, autocracy and nationality". Pobedonostsev taught these

views to Alexander and Nicholas who followed them during their rule as

tsar.

Nicholas's did not believe in doing things for the good of the Russian

people, just what was good for Russia herself, this meant that during

his reign the number of political parties and people speaking out

against the tsar increased (i.e. Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin) these

people believed that People all over Russia should have better living

conditions and increased, fairer wages. Their views became published

in books and magazines such as (Lenin published a leaflet called what

are the friends of the people? And also worked as editor of a Marxist

newspaper called Iskra (the spark). As these view were more widely

circulated more people took notice and decided that they should try

and improve conditions for the workers and peasants.

All this culminated on January the 9/22 1905 when a group of people 20

thousand people (workers, women, children and elder people) led by a

priest and okhrana (secret police) double agent father Georgi Gapon

gathered at six points around St Petersburg to petition Nicholas. The

assembly was entirely peaceful as the crowd were dressed in their best

clothes and took their families. To groups aims were set out before

the march in a letter to the tsar sent by Gapon which said that the

people still trusted the tsar and were going to tell him their needs

at 2pm outside the winter palace, he asked the tsar to meet the people

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