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Deborah Lizeth Reyes Tenorio

A01770928

Gabriela Villanueva

Conflict and Reconstruction

Key Activity- The Romanovs

Primary Source

After George Dawe, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817). (1796–1817). [Pintura].

ART REVIEW: RUSSIA: ROYALTY & THE ROMANOVS @ THE QUEEN’S

GALLERY. https://www.reviewsphere.org/news/art-review-russia-royalty-the-

romanovs-the-queens-gallery/

Secondary source:

History.com Editors. (2020, 17 julio). Romanov Family. HISTORY. Recuperado 28 de abril

de 2022, de https://www.history.com/topics/russia/romanov-family

Source Primary
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Reference in APA format After George Dawe, Princess Charlotte of

Wales (1796–1817). (1796–1817). [Pintura].

ART REVIEW: RUSSIA: ROYALTY &

THE ROMANOVS @ THE QUEEN’S

GALLERY.

https://www.reviewsphere.org/news/art-

review-russia-royalty-the-romanovs-the-

queens-gallery/

Objective of the source To show the British and Russian queen´s life

Position of the author(s) To show the beauty of the Russian style and
the queen's one, “the sarafan-style dress,
traditional in Russia, became a fashionable
item in Britain. Remarkably, the dress worn
by Princess Charlotte was made using
French silk and was assembled in Britain.”

Value of the source for your work: Beauty of the era.

Limitations of the source: It's not really showing the reality that Russia
was leaving at that time, but about the things
they wanted to live and to focus on,
probably to forget about all the disaster.

Report

World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that

lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman

Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania,

Canada, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). Thanks to new military

technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, World War I saw unprecedented levels of

carnage and destruction.

The Romanovs were a group of people who had power in Russia. They were the tsar,

his family and those who supported them.

The economic situation worsened during the reign of Nicholas II. He was unable to

provide enough food for his people. The political situation worsened when Nicholas II took

away some rights from the people and became more powerful. The social situation was also

not good because there were many strikes and protests against the Tsar.

There were different causes for the world war I to start, here are some of them:

Political:

■ New countries were created out of old empires. Austria- Hungary was carved

up into a number of independent states.

■ Russia and Germany gave land to Poland. Countries in the Middle East were

put under the control of Great Britain and France.

Social:

● Destroys communities and families and often disrupts the development of the

social and economic fabric of nations

● Women had a stronger voice, education and health.

Economic:

● The labor force during the war increased by about 10 percent, from forty

million to forty-four million workers

● Unemployment declined from 7.9 percent to only 1.4 percent

During Romanov´s fall many things happened. From the start of the war, Russia's

economic problems grew steadily worse. By the beginning of 1917, the country was facing

virtual economic collapse.

Russian industry moved into crisis during the war. Vital raw materials from overseas

could no longer reach Russia. This resulted in shortages of raw materials and finished goods.

The army faced major shortages of supplies and weapons.

As for the transport, Russia had an underdeveloped railway system. This was taken

over by the government to be used primarily for the war effort. It had to cope with the

pressures of moving large quantities of troops and supplies to the battlefronts. This made it

more difficult to keep the cities supplied with food.

Agricultural methods remained backward and still relied on many peasants being able

to work the land. Millions of peasant farmers were conscripted into the army. This led to a

major shortage of manpower on the farms and a corresponding fall in production.

There were serious shortages of food in the city shops. The price of even the most

basic foods was rising steeply. By 1916, inflation had reached 200 per cent, the value of the

rouble had fallen substantially and the price of goods was soaring. This made life

increasingly difficult, particularly for poorer people.

The Romanovs fell due to the economic, political, and social problems that plagued

Russia during the 19th century. These problems led to a revolution that overthrew Tsar

Nicholas II in 1917.

The Romanovs are known for their economic, political and social characteristics.

They were very wealthy because they controlled most of the country's natural resources as

well as its manufacturing industry, which provided them with a large income from taxes on

trade and exports. The country's economic situation improved when the government began

using foreign loans to finance its development in the mid-19th century.

The Romanovs were the last dynasty of Russia. The Romanovs ruled from 1613 to

1917, when Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown in a revolution. They were an absolute

monarchy and their reign was characterized by a centralized administration and an extensive

bureaucracy.

The Romanovs had ruled Russia for more than 300 years, but their reign was coming

to an end in 1917. The country was still a largely agrarian society with a small industrial base

and deep-seated traditions of autocracy and serfdom. Neither Nicholas nor his son, Alexei,

had any interest in reform.

Tsar Nicholas II was unable to rule effectively. He made poor decisions that led to

worsening relations with the government and increased hardship for civilians and soldiers

alike.

Nicholas refused to accept any reduction in the absolute power he held.

He was detached from the plight of the Russian people and his policies also alienated

ethnic minorities.
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When the Duma was recalled during World War 1, a group of Octoberists and Kadets

established the Progressive Bloc. This group wanted to have more control over the war. In

response, in 1915, Nicholas closed the Duma. This alienated many liberals.

Nicholas declared himself Commander in Chief of the army and departed for the

Eastern Front to take control of operations.

However, Nicholas was not well educated in the tactics of war. Moreover, his absence

left a weakened government in Petrograd (formerly St Petersburg).

After the war, there were food and fuel shortages, leading to strikes and riots in major

Russian cities. This caused unrest among the population who demanded a change in the

monarchy.

The Romanovs were killed, and this had many effects in Russia, firstable, the Civil

War between the Red and White Armies continued after the execution of the Royal Family in

July 1918. Russia got involved in a deep civil war between the Red Army (supporters of

Bolshevism and communism) and the White Army (Russian and non-Russians who favored

political monarchism). In 1918, Lenin and the Bolsheviks carried out a period of political

repression and mass killings, known as the Red Terror. Investigators estimate that the

number of people that died were between 100,000 and 200,000.

Yekaterinburg fell to the anti-communist White Army on July 25, 1918, he decided to

investigate the deaths of the Romanovs and discovered a large number of the Romanovs

belonging close to the burial site, including burned bone fragments.However, he failed to

locate the concealed burial site on the Koptyaki Road.

In 1924, he died of a heart attack in France before he could finish the investigation but

his accounts and pictures were the only accepted historical explanations about the Romanov

family deaths until the bodies were uncovered in the 1990s.

In November 1918, World War One came to an end in Western Europe. Many of the

central powers from World War One, including the United Kingdom provided aid to the

White Army to help them try to defeat the Red Army.

In the trial me between others, are going to be witnesses. In the trial we will try to

defend ourselves and we will also be the witnesses who were present at the fall of the

Romanovs, the Russian war and the First World War.

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Alexander III

Alexander III was born on the tenth of March 1845 and, being the second son of Emperor

Alexander II, had no right to the throne of the Russian Empire. The successor was owed by

his elder brother, Grand Prince Nicholas, but he died of meningitis in 1865.

Alexander III considered restoring the superior place in society to the noble class, and

to this impact he designed in 1885 the Bank of the Nobility, designated to contribute to the

nobles to overcome their economic problems.

In foreign policy, Alexander III of Russia broke the union with Germany to determine

in 1892 an agreement with France, which guaranteed him the credits for industry that

Germany denied him. Meanwhile, Alexander III had earned the enmity of the Zemstvos,

impregnated by the new liberal current and concerned about the repressive economic policy

of the reign, who saw in his replacement, Nicholas II of Russia, the personification of their

hopes.

In 1868 Alexander had his firstborn, Nicholas II, with him becoming the last tsar in

1894 after the death of his father the Romanov dynasty became extinct, how he had no good

control over how to handle the throne of Russia fell under the influences of Rasputin, brought
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to his land poverty, famine and wars, In 1868 Alexander had his firstborn, Nicholas II, with

him becoming the last tsar in 1894 after the death of his father the Romanov dynasty became

extinct, how he had no good control over how to handle the throne of Russia fell under the

influences of Rasputin, brought to his land poverty, famine and wars, In 1868 Alexander had

his firstborn, Nicholas II, with him becoming the last tsar in 1894 after the death of his father

the Romanov dynasty became extinct, how he had no good control over how to handle the

throne of Russia fell under the influences of Rasputin, brought to his land poverty, famine

and wars, he was executed along with his family giving way to Lenin's Bolsheviks and a

communist dictatorship.

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