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The Khodynka Tragedy
As celebration for the new Czar's coronation, great festivities had been planned. To make sure that the population appeared "suitably ecstatic", Muscovites were encouraged to help provide coronation gifts from their new monarch, Czar Nicholas II. A rumor had started to spread that there was insufficient beer and not enough gifts and that's when chaos broke out. About 1,300 people were trampled to death as people pushed forward and around the same number were injured. -
Kishinev Pogrom
The Kishinev Pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev and the capital of Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire. This rioting had continued on in October 1905. The first wave of violence began on Easter Day, 49 Jews killed, Jewish women were sexually abused and 1,500 homes were damaged. The most popular newspaper in Kishinev, the anti-Semitic newspaper Бессарабец, regularly published titles such as “Death to the Jews!”. Many Jews were killed. It wad a terrible time then. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired at by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as the marched to the Winter Palace to present a petition to Czar Nicholas II. It was a tragedy that caused grave consequences for the Czarist autocracy governing imperial Russia. The massacre on Bloody Sunday is considered to be the start of an active phase of the 1905 Revolution and one of the key events that led to the 1917 Revolution. -
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World War I
Russia had entered World War I on August 1st when Germany declared war on it. It had ended disastrously for Russia in the end as she had to withdrawal from the war soon after the October Revolution in 1917. The country had ended up turning on itself with a gruesome civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard. -
The Kerensky Offensive
The Kerensky Offensive was the last Russian offensive in the first World War I. It was decided by Alexander Kerensky, a Minister of War in the Russian Provisional Government, and was led by General Brusilov. This kind of decision was ill-timid because at the time there were strong popular demands for peace, mostly within the Russian Army whose fighting capabilities were rapidly deteriorating. In the end it failed as the High Command had failed to effectively combat democratization of the army. -
October Revolution
The October Revolution, officially known in the Soviet historiography as the Great October Socialist Revolution was a revolution led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. Most of the October Revolution was caused by the failure of the government and the strengths of the Bolsheviks after the fall of the Czar empire. The October Revolution is in November because then Russia still used the Gregorian calendar which was based 13 days behind the calendar we use now. -
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
The Brest-Litovsk Treaty was a peace treaty signed on March 3rd between the new Bolshevik government in Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, etc). This ended Russia’s participation in the first World War. The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk after two months of negotiations. It was finally agreed upon by the Russians that there would be no more invasions. Soviet Russia had defaulted on all Imperial Russia’s commitments and eleven nations became independent. -
Execution of the Czar Family and Fall of the Empire
The members of the deposed Russian royal family Czar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children were awakened in the night by Bolshevik soldiers, they were lead down to the basement of their safe house and one after the other, they were executed.
The imperial family had fallen out of favour with the Russian public long before their execution and was executed merely by poor decision made by him and the previous heirs.
