Czar Nicholas In Relation To George Orwell's Animal Farm

In the book Animal Farm, Czar Nicholas is related to the character Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones is the owner of the farm before he was overthrown by the animals. In the beginning of the novel Old Major delivers a speech about how the animals are oppressed. Mr. Jones Czar Nicholas

People might know Czar Nicholas as the last emperor of Russia. He was born near St. Petersburg in May of 1868, the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III. He married Princess Alexandra of Hesse- Darmstadt (a duchy in Germany). He and his wife had four daughters and one son together. They were all executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

When The Revolution of 1905 broke out, Nicholas was confused. He believed strongly that he had a God-given right to rule Russia

and he put down the revolution by force. That day is known as “Bloody Sunday.” The day began in St. Petersburg with protesters calling for better constructing conditions, political changes, and a popular assembly. Although the protesters were demonstrated peacefully, troops open fired on them killing more than a thousand people.
hears the commotion in the barn and fires a shot into its side. This act is similar to the actions of Nicholas on Bloody sunday. Another similarity mentioned in the novel seen in Mr. Jones is that Czar Nicholas does not have the God-given right to rule over others. Old Major contends that animals should be equal, and the animals agree beginning the revolution. This agreement of principles is much like the Russian Revolution. However, just like the Russian revolution, the principles that Old Major laid out was twisted by the pigs and the farm turned back into the dictator system.
Czar Nicholas time saw the falling of the Roman Empire for having one of the original great powers of the worlds to economic and military collapse. In July of 1918, the Nicholas family had been executed. The family was gathered into two rows for a photograph being taken. There were rumors that they tried to escape earlier that day. A dozen men bursted into the room where the family was kept, and gunned them all down, Anyone who was still breathing after the smoke was all cleared up was stabbed to death.
The remainings of Nicholas and three of his children were found and dug up in a forest near Yekaterinburg in 1991. The bodies were burnt, dowsed in sulphuric acid and dmped. Among all of the leftover remains, they found a finger. They were identified a couple years later by using the fingerprint DNA testing. Alexei and one of the daughters were not identified, and the youngest daughter survived the shooting of the family. All of the eye witnesses didn't wanna fess up of whose finger it was. It was just laying there on the ashes with all the false teeth.
NIcolas was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. He promoted the Hague Convention of 1889. Although it wasn't successful due to dishonesty among the powers, it was still the first formal statement of the law and the war. Czar was held responsible for sending Russia in the first war. He approved the Russian mobilization in August 1914, which sent Russian involvement in the First World War. Russia had the power of 1.4 million soldiers and mobilization added another 3.1 million Russia suffered the loss in the war, with 3.3 million Russians being killed. He was blamed for his incomplete leadership.