Nicholas II, The Last Tsar Paterson Michael
Nicholas II, The Last Tsar Paterson Michael The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian…
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Nicholas II, The Last Tsar Paterson Michael
The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in his devotion to his country, he was weak, sentimental, dogmatic and indecisive. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26.
That he failed is not surprising, for many abler monarchs could not have succeeded. Ironically he could have made an effective constitutional monarch, but these flaws rendered him fatally unsuited to be the sole ruler of a nation that was in the throes of painful modernization. Rather to be wondered at is that he managed, for 23 years, to hold on to power despite the overwhelming force of circumstances.
Though Nicholas was exasperating, he had many endearing qualities. A modern audience, aware - as contemporaries were not - of the private pressures under
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