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Murder In The House Of Romanov

THE MAD MONK

Few figures from the early 20th century
arouse as much curiosity as the peasant
holy man Grigori Rasputin

Tsar Nicholas in captivity
at Tsarskoye Selo

Ipatiev House, where in 1918 Nicholas and
his family were executed, was destroyed
during the reconstruction of the city

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION

November 1894 February 1904 January 1905 January 1905 October 1905 November 1905
Nicholas II accedes to The Russo-Japanese Revolution breaks out Bloody Sunday unfolds The October Manifesto The peasant holy man
the throne after the War erupts. The results across the Russian as the Imperial Guard sees Nicholas guarantee Grigori Rasputin arrives

death of his father, Alex- will be devastating empire amid a wave fires upon unarmed civil liberties to all at court. His infl uence
ander III, who was a far for Russia, Nicholas’s of political and social demonstrators, who are Russian citizens. By there alienates many,
more open-minded and signing of the Treaty unrest. Workers go attempting to present signing, he creates especially after the
able monarch than his of Portsmouth ceding on strike and military a petition to the tsar at the duma, an elected outbreak of World War
son will prove to be. power in East Asia. units mutiny. the Winter Palace. legislature. I in 1914.
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