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Nikolaus II. (native Nikolaj Alexandrowitsch, Russian ; * 6. (18. May) 1868 in Zarskoje Selo; "† 16 July 1918 in Jekaterinburg) was from 1894 to 1917 the last Zar Russia.
Nikolaus II. originated from the Romanow dynasty (house Romanow Holstein Gottorp) and was the oldest son of the Zaren Alexanders III. and Zarin Marja Fjodorowna.
The 1868 born Nikolaus of his father for the role as future Zar one prepared only insufficiently. With Hofe it was considered as naive. Its father called it a "fool". But the estimate of its surrounding field applies from today's viewpoint at least partly than miscarriage of justice.
Nikolaus spoke flowing the French, English and German language. In pc. Petersburg it completed law studies and enjoyed by struggle-high Ministers and generals of its father per finds historical and military training. Briefly after the death of its father he married on 26 November 1894 Alexandra of Hessen darmstadt, the daughter of the Grand Duke Ludwig IV. of Hessen and with Rhine. It exerted a strong influence on it and encouraged Nikolaus in its faith in its autocracy.
From the marriage with Alexandra five children rose:
After the death of its father Nikolaus was appointed on 1 November 1894 the Zaren. Its coronation/culmination was however only celebrated in July 1896, since the preparations for the coronation/culmination took more than 19 months. Nikolaus' rule was characterized of political errors. It wanted to give no power from the hands and played its Ministers among themselves out. Thus it lost however in the long run the force over its realm, which was already held together after short time only by secret police and the army.
Starting from 1894 the country was shaken by numerous problems. Russia intervened increasingly in Korea and came thereby into the conflict with Japan. Nikolaus had traveled as a young person to Japan and of an assassin in the face had been hurt there. Since this time he despised the Japanese as "yellow apes". In order to divert from the threatening problems relating to domestic affairs, it accepted a short war. The Russian-Japanese war became however the debacle for Russia. To the defeat in the far east it came to the general strike, to which Nikolaus reacted with force. At the Petersburger Blutsonntag it let its secret police and the military shoot at demonstrators, suffocated each rebellion in the germ. Finally Nikolaus had to permit a choice nevertheless to the Duma. Nikolaus ignored the advice his former Minister of Finance Sergei Juljewitsch Witte, which snapped him and recommended comprehensive reforms, to a large extent. In addition it broke several times arbitrarily the condition. The beginning of the 1. World war represented then the beginning of the end. The frequent defeats, hunger emergencies and the catastrophic supply situation of the population led in the long run to the revolution.
Under the pressure of the February revolution of 1917 Nikolaus II. had to resign. On 16 July 1918 it and its family, about a half year after the fall of the Menschewiki in the October Revolution 1917, on instruction of Lenin by the bolschewistischen troops in banishing, guarding it, with Jekaterinburg in the Urals were murdered. The Gebeine of the family was discovered 1979 in the small forest of four brothers close Jekaterinburg. Times of the Soviet Union this discovery could not be made public however. Only 1991 was saved the bodies and one year was identified later perfectly. On the day exactly 80 years after the murder were buried the mortal remnants Nikolaus' and its family in pc. Petersburg.
Nikolaus II. governed Russia like its predecessors as absolute autocrats. It is not considered from today's viewpoint as a particularly capable ruler. In its term of office it was considered to alleged spirit-sound as easily influenceable, among other things by the Popen Grigori Rasputin.
His Mrs. Alexandra and he ignored the problems, over Russia the fallow. It fought the modernization of its realm and held to traditional halbfeudalen conditions, instead of leading the country on the way of the development. Its government slid from a crisis to the next: of worker and farmer rebellions during the revolution of 1905 over the war with Japan up to the First World War.
To the Russian-orthodox foreign church Nikolaus II. applies because of its martyr death as holy. In August 2000 Nikolaus II. was holy spoken also of the Russian-orthodox church. Icons with its representation as well as with the representation of its killed family hang since then in each Russian-orthodox church, both in Russia and abroad.
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