•The Romanovs ruled for 300 years. They were a constitutional monarch.

•Nicholas II was the last Tsar after his Grandfather died in 1894.

•He married Alexandra Feodorovna the fourth daughter of the Duke of Hesse.

•They had five children. Four girls, Olga, Maria, Tatiana and Anastasia. One boy, the heir to the throne, Alexei.

•They mainly lived the winter palace in St Petersburg.•They lived a idyllic life filled with luxuries.

•The children were tutored in languages, arts and music.

THE ROMANOVS – IMPERIAL, HOSTAGES, MURDERED.

•• Only true autocracy left in Europe••Nicholas II became tsar in 1884••He believed he was the absolute ruler anointed by God

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•Tsar paid no attention to the Duma, it was harassed and political parties suppressed••Nicholas was personally a very weak man, he became increasingly remote as a ruler••Numerous soviets began to appear•

PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

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ALEXANDRA: THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE

•Even more blindly committed to autocracy than her husband •She was under the influence of Rasputin •Scandals surrounding Rasputin served to discredit the monarchy

•Nicholas left for the front-september 1915

•Alexandra and Rasputin throw the government into chaos

•Alexandra and other high government officials accused of treason

•Rasputin assassinated in December 1916

•Complete mismanagement of the wartime economy

•Production plummeted,inflation and starvation were rampant, and the cities were overflowing with refugees

•Food shortages in 1917

THE COLLAPSE OF THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT

••Origins: Food riots/strikes• •Duma declared itself a Provisional Government on March 12• •Tsar ordered soldiers to intervene, instead they joined the rebellion...the Tsar thus abdicated on March 17•

••Amnesty granted to all political prisoners in March 1917• •Lenin’s arrival in Petrograd• •A tremendously charismatic personality• •He preached that the ward was a capitlist/imperialist was that offered no rewards for the peasants/workers, he also felt the war was over with the czar’s abdication

THE MARCH REVOLUTION

• Began November 6 1917

•This was the ideological aspect of the revolution with the coup itself planned by Leon Trotsky, who had gained the confidence of the army•Lenin went on to consolidate his power in January 1918 when he disbanded the Constituent Assembly which replaced the Duma•All private property was abolished and divided among peasantry

NOVEMBER REVOLUTION

•Grigori Rasputin was a Serbian monk who had a

huge influence on the Romanov Royal family and

some believe that he is a key reason in the revolution

against Tsar Nicholas II and for the assassination of the

Royal Family.

•Alexei, only son of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina

Alexandra and heir to the Russian throne had a blood disease called haemophilia. •Rasputin was believed to

have healing powers and he claimed that Mary the

Mother of Jesus came to him and told him to go to St.

Petersburg to help Alexei.

RASPUTIN

•Grigori was able to relieve Alexei of his pain and stop some of the bleeding. Following this

incident he became a permanent member of the Royal Family’s

entourage. •Rasputin’s lively social life

didn’t help the publics view of the royal family. Grigori was a

drunk who was said to have made married women sleep with him as he told them only if they sinned with him would God truly

forgive them.

•He had a huge influence over the royal family

particularly the Tsarina as she believed that God spoke

through Rasputin. At one stage while the Tsar was

away controlling the army during WW2, the Tsarina was in charge and Rasputin used

her trust in him to his advantage telling her to give

governmental positions to people who paid him.

RASPUTIN

•Rasputin was influencing too many of the Tsar’s and Tsarina’s decisions that were having detrimental

effects for Russia so some members of the Royal

entourage devised a plan to have him killed.

•He was invited to the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich

Romanov’s house, cousin of the Tsar where they shot

Rasputin and threw him into the river.

•Even though Grigori Rasputin may be the reason for their death the Romanov

family loved him and referred to him as our friend

RASPUTIN

• Rasputin had a huge influence over the royals and so was a key reason behind the revolution as the people were fed up with the monarch system of ruling. Grigori Rasputin may be the reason behind the death of the Romanovs.

•Anastasia was the fourth daughter of Nicholas II.•Her name means ‘the breaker of chains’.

•She loved her brother dearly and helped the nurses take care of him.

•She was a very intelligent young girl but didn’t have much interest in studying.

•She enjoyed acting and loved to entertain the family. During their captivity she strived to keep the family’s spirits up.

•She was very funny and was considered the jokester of the family.

•She was often very mischievous and loved to play tricks on her teachers and servants.

ANASTASIA

•After the execution of the family their were a lot of rumours as to whether Anastasia had died along with her family.

•Many young girls stepped forward claiming to be the Grand Duchess.

•One of the most famous was a girl named Ana Anderson.•After DNA tests were carried out it was proven that she was

not in fact Anastasia.•Anastasia is considered one of the biggest mysteries of the

20th century and is listed as one of the top 10 disappearances of all time.

•She was the inspiration for two Oscar winning movies including the children's animation ‘Anastasia’.

ANASTASIA

•On the night of July 17, 1918 the Romanovs were woken and told to dress and were lead from their rooms to a small room in the basement. •As they entered the basement they were told to gather for a picture which they didn’t know was taken by the head executioner.

•It was carried out by a man called Yurovsky and eleven armed men. •The bullets ricocheted off the women's chests because the family jewels had been sewn into their corsets. • It was unknown weather all of the children were killed, as all of the faces were disfigured due to acid being poured on them, but in recent years further remains have been found to prove that all children were killed.

•The bodies were wrapped in bed sheets and brought to Ganina Yama to be buried. The bodies were beaten before they were buried.

•Even though the Romaonov’s met a horrible and horrendous death, there impact on the world will never be forgotten and Russia would never be the country it is today.