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Funny video as always Jack. Maybe you can make a few video's on the pratfalls of some other European Monarchs. Like the English, French, and Spanish Monarchs. I'm sure those video's will be hilarious.
Fun fact, Rasputin did save Nick’s son’s life. The boy had Hemophilia and was previously being treated with aspirin… a blood thinner… Rasputin took him off the aspirin thus saving his life.
Fun fact: Queen Victoria was a mutant. Not in the X-Men sense where you have superpowers but in the shitty "you got a run of bad luck in the genetic draw" sense. In particular, her mutations resulted in hemophilia when other genes were present, and although she wasn't hemophilic herself, she reigned for most of the 19th century, spreading said mutation across the European aristocracy through marriages of her children and grandchildren.
So...fun fact, Nicholas II initially was quite taken with Japan...until one of the guards assigned to him tried to open his head with a sword for what appeared to be no known reason on his tour of Japan. The incident overnight changed Nicholas's fondness of Japan to loathing and paranoia and part of his life's goal from that point became... to quote a certain meme, "I'll never forgive the Japanese!"
None of these facts are fun Russia is legit the opposite of ANYTHING fun...but Thank you for the Factoid I knew he took a trip to Japan with King George (or some such.) George ended up with a wicked dragon tattoo...That sucks it ended it complete disaster and tragedy
@@mediocremaiden8883 Actually it was Nicholas that got the Dragon tattoo. It's darkly humorous that a single event sent millions(if not billions) of people down a dark route mainly because of one person. Kind of like WWI kicking off the way it did. It is the absurdity of it that creates a bitter laughter. We laugh to keep from sobbing as it were.
@grandadmiralzaarin4962 No shit? Well I knew it was either him or his twin-cousin George V. Although I find Tsar Nicholas to have been extraordinarily handsome. 😍 Yes its true. I get down Victorian Style, That way. You guys are not alone in laughing to keep from sobbing we do that everywhere..Russia was and continues to be amazingly beautiful ❤️
@@grandadmiralzaarin4962 Europe in August 1914 was a fuse in search of a match. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand started the war, but it did not cause the war. If it had not been that it would have been something else. Everyone was looking for a reason to start fighting.
Maybe it was a case of wrong identity. Wasn't he with his cousin George? Japan had issues with England. Wouldn't it be crazy If the Russo-Japan war was all a case of mistaken identity
*Remember when everyone thought that Anastasia escaped the royal murders, and came up with all those conspiracy theories* *only to realize that they forgot to look a little to the left in the burial grounds?*
In fairness I think the only reason that theory really gained steam was cause there was a lady in the 20s going around Germany claiming to be Anastasia, and did surprisingly well in convincing former friends of the royal family that she was her. If I remember correctly, it was both Alexei and Maria’s bodies that were buried separately from the rest of the family, and in fact while it’s almost certainly them the Church has yet to inter their bodies with the rest of their family for political reasons? The whole thing is weird.
@@PineappleLiar It wouldn't surprise me if the former friends of the royal family went along with her claims because they thought they could use it as a way to reignite the Russian Civil War and drive out the Bolsheviks.
@@PineappleLiar There were bunch of reasons why everyone thought Anastasia survived. The country was in absolute chaos because they were still in the middle of WWI and the Russian Civil War. The Soviets realized that killing the Tsar was one thing, but his wife and children were a step too far for many. So they claimed they put the children on a train for safekeeping, then lost track of them during the fighting.
Its also more comforting to believe that at least the youngest daughter might have made it out, instead of accepting that she was shot, possibly violated, and mutilated by filthy bolsheviks
I remember as a kid watching the Anastasia movie thinking that maybe she had escaped that horrible night, even if the chance was slim. I was very sad to learn years later that she did not survive and died in that cold basement with her family.
If only Nicholas had held out until 1922 when the earliest tanks in War Thunder would be released. I have it on good authority that he was great at that game.
"1000 people are dead!" Nicholas:" That's bad?" PR guy:" THAT'S BAD!" Nicholas:" That's bad." The moral of the story of PR guy is that there is only so much you can do when you are surrounded by idiots.
Fished all morning and through lunch. Whipped the Ruskies in the afternoon. Couldn’t be bothered to follow up, and back in the pub in time for last orders. Just another day in the life of a 1905 North York’s fisherman really. Scarcely warranted a passing remark in the captains log.
There's a lot to learn about ruling from Nicky. Mostly how not to do it. If his father hadn't died so soon he probably could have shown Nicky a few things to keep the people in line. He wouldn't have been a great ruler but he would definitely not have gone down as one of the most disastrous ones in history. Maybe he could have kicked the can of that to his son or if his son died his brother might have been up for the job, hell they also might have reserved the law of "no female rulers" to let one of the princesses take over, there's just so many what ifs. Russia might also have been another constitutional Monarchy, but one where the monarchy had a little more agency than the British one.
It all just wild dream. Russian monarchy outlived itself, Romanovs did hold absolute power until last men... Alexander 3 was a deeply reactionary guy, he wasted potential of reforms made by his father and kept aristocracy as leading force in the country, he also failed in foreign policy, making Bulgaria and other Balkan countries angry about Russia...
@@evilwithatwist4184 after Katherine the Great died, her son declared there would be no more female rulers and it was because of his own issues between him and his mother. After that no one bothered to change it.
Doubtful. Alexander III never planned to make Nicholas anywhere a ruler of some kind because he thought he's one of those dumb mistakes God likes to give out to people at his own perverse amusement hence thinking it's a waste of time trying to teach him stuff about being a Tsar. He favors his older son who died shortly before him. This is the reason I am not fond of monarchies as a form of government: we're stuck in a genetic lottery where the next draw happens roughly every 50 years...
He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar In all affairs of state he was the man to please But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze For the queen he was no wheeler dealer Though she'd heard the things he'd done She believed he was a holy healer Who would heal her son
Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on
I always find this interesting, given how the only time someone asked the Tsarina about whether she fancied Rasputin, her one word response was "Yuck!"
There are very clear reasons why Alexander II supported Finnish nationalism. First of all Finns had been part of Sweden from around 11th to 12th century till 1809. So Finns very much thought that they were part of Sweden and not their own country or part of Russia. So by fuelling Finnish nationalism and the idea of Finland he managed to separate us Finns from the Swedish and make us stop moaning about returning to the Swedish crown. Second reason was carrot and stick policy. Polish had rebelled under his reign and he really punished the Poles for the rebellion. Us Finns were loyal subjects and he wanted to reward us as an example to all of what happens if you are good boys. Hopefully this helped and you still see this Jack Rackam.
@@kyleshiflet9952 It's amusing to read all the PR from 1913 (the Romanov tercentenary). Lots of gullible journalists bought the story that after all the unpleasantness in 1905 things were really looking up.and Tzarism could look forward to a prosperous future.
Side note: Alexander II also spurred industrialization in Russia, including the construction of the first railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1842-51. The history of Russia's railway development was weird; some of it was built by the state, some by state-sanctioned private industry. Which was how in 1888 Alexander III found himself returning from the Crimea (modern-day Ukraine) to St. Petersburg on the privately owned Kursk-Kharkov-Azov Railway. The railway's director, Sergei Witte, had warned that the royal train in its entirety was too heavy, traveling too fast, and shouldn't be pulled by two locomotives, but the royal train's organizers ignored the warnings. Outside the village of Borki on Oct. 29, 1888, one of the iron rails split and the train derailed at high speed. According to the official report and Witte's memoirs, the imperial family was having breakfast in the dining car when the train derailed and despite his injuries Alexander used his bear-like strength to hold up the roof of the shattered carriage long enough for his family to escape. 21 people were killed in the wreck with another 35 injured. Some scholars have speculated that Alexander's death may have been in part cause by lingering internal injuries he sustained during the train wreck. Sergei Witte, while criticized by some in the royal court for running a substandard railway, was appointed as Director of State Railways and saddled with the task of building the Trans-Siberian Railway on a practically shoestring budget. He would go on to briefly hold office as Prime Minister in one of the 6-month periods when Nicholas II thought parliamentary rule might be worth a try. P.S. Dear gods, yes! Please, supplementary video on the Voyage of the Damned, the Russian Baltic, er, Second Pacific Squadron! One of the most darkly hilarious "What The Actual Fuck" stories of history.
I’m honestly really conflicted on good old Nicky. On one hand he genuinely seemed like a guy who just really had no business running a country and had enough quirks to make him helplessly likable…but at the same time his authoritarian BS really works in the opposite direction on that. But ultimately I think everyone can agree that he and his family definitely didn’t deserve what they did get in the end.
I agree he didn’t deserve to die. But also the millions of Russians who died in WW1 probably didn’t deserve to die either. Basically, his murder is sad, but not surprising considering his actions, tho yeah his entire family was 100% uncalled for.
He was the least capable man forcthe job. Lazy to the extreme, weak-minded, massively corrupt, and indecissive to the point other european politics were fed up of his constant opinion switching (proven by the fact none of them gave a shit about his deal with the japanese, and not only because imperialistic rivalries like GB. Killing the family was uncalled for, but at that point, pretty much everyone in Russia wanted the Romanovs gone for good, and were willing to make anything no matter how sick just to make sure of that.
Nicholas II and his wife actually spent the hours after the stampede praying for the victims; and paid for their funerals. The infamous ball at the French embassy was 4 days later and the imperial couple only attended bc they were convinced it would offend Russia’s major ally but they stayed for 10 minutes. The empress eyes red from crying
@@nicolasmichiels9972 Whatever they'd done this dreadful incident would have been a very bad omen for the reign but reluctantly attending a ball at the French Embassy compounded the damage.
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Nicholas II is a great example of someone (at least superficially) who tried his best, but didn't have the experience, knowledge, or common sense, of how to do it, with a World War to put the demise on "TURBO MODE". Even his brother was slightly more liked.
A very good overview of one of the great disastrous rulers of history. Nicholas II was one of those who had the absolute worst instincts for ruling and it showed from start to finish.
nicholas II was well-known to be one of the best war thunder players in the world in 1917, which is why it's surprising he didn't see total soviet dominion coming
I recently listened to a podcast that detailed some of the failed efforts made to get the Czar and his family into exile and safety in England, and it's heartbreaking to think of. So many European royals were related at that point, and they were a close family. Many years earlier, Queen Victoria had opposed the match between her favourite granddaughter and Nicholas specifically because Russia was a dangerous and poorly run country. But once worse came to worse, Queen Victoria was long dead, it was considered politically untenable in England to offer them sanctuary, and the Romanovs were left to their fate.
I dont get why people like you have such sympathies for royals when they would not have the same for you. The first world war was basically a family feud between cousins who could have easily sat down and talked it out. But nope they forced millions of people to fight and die for something that was beyond pointless. Their actions lead to their own down fall at least in the case of the czar and Kaiser. The Kaiser basically getting shafted by the weimar and the Nazis. The czar well the video explained what happened to him. The British king was the only one who got off Scott free and his parasitic bloodline still rules Britain to this day. Royalty is a outdated concept that really needs to be deleted as a concept. In the past they had reasons to exist now they are just the biggest welfare queens and kings on earth. They need to get off their butts and work like everyone else.
@@ludovicusbathory1715 Please kindly get off your high horse, and stuff the history lesson as you're not telling me anything that I don't already know. As a grown ass woman with a mind of my own, I'm allowed to express my sympathies however I like.
Tsar Nicholas II is definitely one of history’s greatest disappointments. He had everything to be one of Russia’s greatest rulers and was a loving family man, and he blew it with one stupid decision after another
He was handed an unwieldy empire that he was expected to rule entirely on his own with training in how to do it. Its hardly a surprise that ended poorly.
@@danz1182 But that's the thing, he wasn't expected to do it all on his own, there were many capable advisors at his side that wanted to reform Russia and a huge group of patriotic liberals who wanted to take up roles in local government and help the empire. But he was so convinced that he absolutely had to be the sole absolute ruler and an unquestioned patriarch that he blew it all, like he genuinely believed in the idea of divine right a century after the French Revolution had consigned that doctrine to the dustbin of history. He often tried to micromanage things for absolutely no reason but at the same time was completely incapable of understanding the realities of a large government. Occasionally he would let a reformer have some control and they'd actually improve things and modernize the economy but then he'd make some kind of abrupt switch. His consistent refusal to liberalize would be his ultimate undoing because it slowly radicalized the Marxist left wing who initially had been fine just supporting liberals until Russia had been fully industrialized but came to believe that it was necessary to take power themselves because Russia would never liberalize or industrialize and everyone was starving or dying in the war.
@hedgehog3180 Exactly. And his wife encouraged his micro-managing behavior and stubbornness. When left on her own during the war, Alexandra made a habit of firing ministers for making practical decisions solely because said decisions involved working with people who didn't have their heads in the clouds.
I love when you upload longer videos and the sidebar remarks while doing do make history even more interesting than when I was watching the history channel as a child. Keep it up!!
This came out right on time. Her Imperial Highness, Angela Landsbury (the voice of the dowager empress in Anastasia and Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast) died not too long before this video came out. She truly was a treasure
IIRC his brother declined the throne until a constitution could be drawn up to the benefit of the people, and a western style constitutional monarchy established (likely for PR reasons), but they couldn’t do that until he took the throne so he just turned it down all together.
Close. The Tsar’s brother, Michael, never declined or renounced the throne. He simply issued a statement deferring his acceptance of it until a constitutional assembly could be convened to determine Russia’s future form of government. That was his position, in its entirety
I’m honestly interested in what his son would have been like as tsar. From what I’ve read he actually seemed to have had the early makings of a good ruler
It is an interesting concept to think about indeed since Nicholas was actually determined to not repeat the same mistakes his father had with him, and involved Alexei in a lot of his meetings, especially during WWI but by that time, it was too little too late.
Interesting is certainly a word. I feel before that I might say ineffectual, or myopic, or foolish, or incompetent, or elitist, or dumb, or ill-prepared, or stupid, or bufoonish, or useless, or idiotic, or largely worthless
He believed his burden was passed *to him* by his familial line and by God. Divine ordinance doesn't just mean God chose you to party. Its hard for us moderns to wrap our heads around but to him that would have been like Christ choosing not to carry the cross or something. He felt that it was his burden to live up to as best as he was able. Not a value judgement on that system obviously but one needs to understand that to understand him.
Well that was actually just a bad code name. The Bolshevieks were trying to keep the location of the royal family a secret because they wanted to use them as a negotiating chip. However the city they were being kept in looked like it was about to be surrounded so the local commander decided to execute them. Ironically an order had actually been sent to note execute them under any circumstances but it arrived a few hours too late. After it happened the Bolshevieks then had to make it look like it was their idea the whole time.
It will never make sense to me how to Nicholas didn't want to be Czar and knew full well he was unqualified. Yet fought against any reforms that would've eroded even a little of his absolute power.
He was a very mercurial man, actually liberalish in temperament but very prone to falling out with his advisors, and therefore ignoring their often-progressive advice. Also the Tsarina, who he was putty in the hands of, was a fairly staunch conservative, so that didn't help much, either.
@@lewisirwin5363 he was liberalish except for when he fought to limit the power of the duma and any institution that wouldn't be directly told by him, and that whole Russification thing
I mean her dad grand dad and great grand dad were pretty bad leaders. Chances are she would have been either a average leader or a bad one as well. Also alexi was the heir so yeah.
Read lots of books on this guy to get different perspectives but even apologists admit dude was just a waste(of Russia's future).. but his crazy wife did say one smart thing; "Russia loves the feel of the whip!"
Before the official modern Russia started to heavily police their history, Nikolai II had a very characteristic nickname which can be the best translated to "Doormat Czar". Whether it's a fair nickname is a complicated question to be simply answered in a UA-cam comment, but just so you know his lingering reputation.
@@alanpennieNicholas was actually quite apathetic in his anti-Semitism. That doesn’t make it better but what I mean is he perceived to be a decent outlet for public anger and little else. The imperial government and the church (at the government’s direction) also did make public condemnations of pogroms during Nicholas’s reign, so that’s something
Okay just seeing the notification, and then who the biography is about, I couldn't help but laugh and rub my hands together knowing how fun this would be 😂😂
"And what a fuss the English are making. It was perfectly natural for your Captain to mistake those English fishing boats for Japanese gunships" said Willykins.
You know when you order the Army to put down the protesters, and they tell you I'm sorry sir we're too busy lighting government buildings on fire. You officially failed as an autocrat.
Funny story, in a move that must have been intended entirely as a show of spite against the Soviets, Nicky was made a Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Well it's more some really weird historical revisionism/denialism since literally everyone eventually came to hate Nicholas. Even his close family thought he was a nuisance. No one was really saddened by his death.
Oh yes the Manchu boy emperor who never really had power and was just a puppet of the Japanese. Towards the end of his life he was made to become a groundskeeper and paraded the round by the Communists as a form of humiliation. This fate was worse than death for Puyi
@@nickmoser7785 Really? Puyi was treated quite well by the PRC compared to other royals in communist countries; he even got into a better marriage than compared to his former apathetic one. The PRC even protected Puyi from the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
@@nickmoser7785 Maybe, but Mao's intentions were more likely of, "Chinese communism is better than Russian communism because our monarchs have turned communist and are alive".
@@d0cteroof308I mean it helped that Puyi never had any children and his wife died in custody in a pool of her own fluids due to severe withdrawal from opiates
300 years of hereditary brutal rule and mismanagement will legitimise children/future heirs as a valid political target. Also the Bolsheviks targeted any member of the Romanov family. They even murdered a member who'd resigned royal life to become a nun. The only members of the family that are alive today are those that fled at the first sign of trouble. The Russian Revolution was exceedingly brutal but given the way that family had lorded over the place, it's understandable why.
@@chemicaleye5959 they didn't kill the kids of the Habsburgs, Bonapartists, Bourbons, Savoys etc and none of those monarchies exist anymore. Heck, even the Chinese Communist party kept the child emperor alone
Now that we have Nick, Willy and Franz episodes I wonder if Jack will make an episode about George V, because this guy was so boring that even his biographer called him tedious.
I liked the video, but truth is that Rasputin get a really worst reputation than he deserves. He was strange, a womanizer and a drunkard (as the average russian), but he also was a devout who travelled the world by foot and was sincerely invested in the people of Russia, more than the Tsar itself. He adviced the Tsar against going the war all together and to focus on improving the well being of Russia people, and the Romanov family, mainly the mother and children, actually liked his company.
I mean giving them the benefit of the doubt the family did want to stay in and pray for all the people that died during the stampede but they were told not too which in the long run was not a great decision😬
1:25: Alexander II abolished serfdom because he desperately needed labor force in the newly created and developing industry, while the landowners wouldn't let go of their serfs who were slaving in the fields for them (and didn't have the right to leave without their masters' permission. Abolition of serfdom was not done out of charity nor for any kind of humanitarian reasons. The so "freed" serfs would be treated just as poorly, overworked, underpaid and exploited to the same degree in the factories etc. as they were in landgoods.
I’d say the saddest thing of the end of the Russian Empire was on what happened to the Tsar’s children. Nicholas II wasn’t an evil person just badly advised and was bad so to leadership but his family didn’t deserve what happened to them.
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A belligerent, impatient and imperialistic Japan attacked Russia without warning at Port Arthur in 1905, just as it attacked the USA without warning at Pearl Harbour in 1941. Russian unpreparedness came in part because it had spent so little on its armed forces - unlike the aggressive Western nations and their imitator - Japan. It was Tsar Nicholas who had proposed international disarmament at the Hague. To accuse this peacemaker of starting the war to create national unity is simply a myth of those who know no history. With only about a quarter of Western European and Japanese military spending, a peace-directed Russia was ill-equipped to fight a war thousands of miles from its capital. To blame the Tsar for Japanese aggression or the disastrous inefficiency of individuals in his administration before and during that war is hardly just.
So sad this documentary forget the giant tricycle tank Tsar Nicolas built to win WW1 which got stuck in the mud on its first test and was too heavy to recover.
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Anything that has to do with the Crimean War?
Anything you make is great!... but what about something either really niche... or portuguese history eh? eh? *finger guns*
Funny video as always Jack. Maybe you can make a few video's on the pratfalls of some other European Monarchs. Like the English, French, and Spanish Monarchs. I'm sure those video's will be hilarious.
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Maybe you can do some Japanese history? Plenty of figures you could cover.
Fun fact, Rasputin did save Nick’s son’s life. The boy had Hemophilia and was previously being treated with aspirin… a blood thinner… Rasputin took him off the aspirin thus saving his life.
Fun fact: Queen Victoria was a mutant. Not in the X-Men sense where you have superpowers but in the shitty "you got a run of bad luck in the genetic draw" sense. In particular, her mutations resulted in hemophilia when other genes were present, and although she wasn't hemophilic herself, she reigned for most of the 19th century, spreading said mutation across the European aristocracy through marriages of her children and grandchildren.
@@Tetrahedral-Justin That one is pretty fun.
@@Tetrahedral-Justin
Her genes were a sleeper agent for the destruction of autocratic monarchy
If the nymphomaniac wizard was the sanest one in the house it's no wonder it all went to hell
@@Tetrahedral-Justin Queen Victoria was the real evil mastermind behind the horrors of the 20th century. A goddess of destruction perhaps...
The Russian Fleet's journey from the Baltic to the Pacific really does deserve it's own video. What a doomed expedition.
It's already been done by the UA-camr BlueJay.
Blue Jay did a really funny video on it ua-cam.com/video/yzGqp3R4Mx4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BlueJay
Drach also has an excellent series on it
@@aaronTGP_3756 Long may he live.
Blue Jay is amazing!
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So...fun fact, Nicholas II initially was quite taken with Japan...until one of the guards assigned to him tried to open his head with a sword for what appeared to be no known reason on his tour of Japan. The incident overnight changed Nicholas's fondness of Japan to loathing and paranoia and part of his life's goal from that point became... to quote a certain meme, "I'll never forgive the Japanese!"
None of these facts are fun Russia is legit the opposite of ANYTHING fun...but Thank you for the Factoid I knew he took a trip to Japan with King George (or some such.) George ended up with a wicked dragon tattoo...That sucks it ended it complete disaster and tragedy
@@mediocremaiden8883 Actually it was Nicholas that got the Dragon tattoo. It's darkly humorous that a single event sent millions(if not billions) of people down a dark route mainly because of one person. Kind of like WWI kicking off the way it did. It is the absurdity of it that creates a bitter laughter. We laugh to keep from sobbing as it were.
@grandadmiralzaarin4962 No shit? Well I knew it was either him or his twin-cousin George V. Although I find Tsar Nicholas to have been extraordinarily handsome. 😍 Yes its true. I get down Victorian Style, That way. You guys are not alone in laughing to keep from sobbing we do that everywhere..Russia was and continues to be amazingly beautiful ❤️
@@grandadmiralzaarin4962 Europe in August 1914 was a fuse in search of a match. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand started the war, but it did not cause the war. If it had not been that it would have been something else. Everyone was looking for a reason to start fighting.
Maybe it was a case of wrong identity. Wasn't he with his cousin George? Japan had issues with England. Wouldn't it be crazy If the Russo-Japan war was all a case of mistaken identity
*Remember when everyone thought that Anastasia escaped the royal murders, and came up with all those conspiracy theories*
*only to realize that they forgot to look a little to the left in the burial grounds?*
In fairness I think the only reason that theory really gained steam was cause there was a lady in the 20s going around Germany claiming to be Anastasia, and did surprisingly well in convincing former friends of the royal family that she was her. If I remember correctly, it was both Alexei and Maria’s bodies that were buried separately from the rest of the family, and in fact while it’s almost certainly them the Church has yet to inter their bodies with the rest of their family for political reasons? The whole thing is weird.
@@PineappleLiar It wouldn't surprise me if the former friends of the royal family went along with her claims because they thought they could use it as a way to reignite the Russian Civil War and drive out the Bolsheviks.
@@PineappleLiar There were bunch of reasons why everyone thought Anastasia survived. The country was in absolute chaos because they were still in the middle of WWI and the Russian Civil War. The Soviets realized that killing the Tsar was one thing, but his wife and children were a step too far for many. So they claimed they put the children on a train for safekeeping, then lost track of them during the fighting.
Its also more comforting to believe that at least the youngest daughter might have made it out, instead of accepting that she was shot, possibly violated, and mutilated by filthy bolsheviks
I remember as a kid watching the Anastasia movie thinking that maybe she had escaped that horrible night, even if the chance was slim. I was very sad to learn years later that she did not survive and died in that cold basement with her family.
If only Nicholas had held out until 1922 when the earliest tanks in War Thunder would be released. I have it on good authority that he was great at that game.
We need more PR guy. Did his job fantastically 😂
Ngl, I thought PR Guy was going to be the one to shoot Nicky at the end 😂
@@warlordofbritannia same
Illmatic Hollow so do I he made me laugh so hard
"1000 people are dead!"
Nicholas:" That's bad?"
PR guy:" THAT'S BAD!"
Nicholas:" That's bad."
The moral of the story of PR guy is that there is only so much you can do when you are surrounded by idiots.
“They did manage to score a tie with some English fisherman along the way”
that’s a lot of praise for THAT Russian fleet
Possibly the biggest British disappointment at sea
I’m sure if the English men actually tried they would’ve won XD
Those fishermen were armed to the gills with torpedoes, tho.
Fished all morning and through lunch. Whipped the Ruskies in the afternoon. Couldn’t be bothered to follow up, and back in the pub in time for last orders. Just another day in the life of a 1905 North York’s fisherman really. Scarcely warranted a passing remark in the captains log.
I wouldn't call that a draw. The Russians lost the ability to use the Suez Canal in the incident.
He may be aad emperor but what's important is that he got a sick dragon tattoo from Japan.
Nicholas Romanov II
Patriarch of the Romanov Family
There's a lot to learn about ruling from Nicky. Mostly how not to do it. If his father hadn't died so soon he probably could have shown Nicky a few things to keep the people in line. He wouldn't have been a great ruler but he would definitely not have gone down as one of the most disastrous ones in history. Maybe he could have kicked the can of that to his son or if his son died his brother might have been up for the job, hell they also might have reserved the law of "no female rulers" to let one of the princesses take over, there's just so many what ifs. Russia might also have been another constitutional Monarchy, but one where the monarchy had a little more agency than the British one.
you must be thinking of some other place russia had why to many female rules for this to be true
It all just wild dream. Russian monarchy outlived itself, Romanovs did hold absolute power until last men... Alexander 3 was a deeply reactionary guy, he wasted potential of reforms made by his father and kept aristocracy as leading force in the country, he also failed in foreign policy, making Bulgaria and other Balkan countries angry about Russia...
@@evilwithatwist4184 after Katherine the Great died, her son declared there would be no more female rulers and it was because of his own issues between him and his mother. After that no one bothered to change it.
@@silence_dais But the whole law states the a woman can become the rule upon the extinction of all legitimately-born male dynasty.
Doubtful. Alexander III never planned to make Nicholas anywhere a ruler of some kind because he thought he's one of those dumb mistakes God likes to give out to people at his own perverse amusement hence thinking it's a waste of time trying to teach him stuff about being a Tsar. He favors his older son who died shortly before him. This is the reason I am not fond of monarchies as a form of government: we're stuck in a genetic lottery where the next draw happens roughly every 50 years...
He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
I always find this interesting, given how the only time someone asked the Tsarina about whether she fancied Rasputin, her one word response was "Yuck!"
"Knock knock, World-War-o'clock"
Best quote about World War 1 I've ever seen.
Yep.
Honestly RASPUTIN deserves his own video. Quite a fascinating story and lots of funny side anecdotes
There are very clear reasons why Alexander II supported Finnish nationalism.
First of all Finns had been part of Sweden from around 11th to 12th century till 1809. So Finns very much thought that they were part of Sweden and not their own country or part of Russia. So by fuelling Finnish nationalism and the idea of Finland he managed to separate us Finns from the Swedish and make us stop moaning about returning to the Swedish crown.
Second reason was carrot and stick policy. Polish had rebelled under his reign and he really punished the Poles for the rebellion. Us Finns were loyal subjects and he wanted to reward us as an example to all of what happens if you are good boys.
Hopefully this helped and you still see this Jack Rackam.
The poor Finns suffered a good deal in The Crimean War when the Brits sunk a great many of their ships.
The Emperor of Japan also had a giant mecha suit on his side, so really how could Nikolas think victory was possible? Silly man...
This enraged his father, who punished him severely
8:19 As someone who's worked in public relations... *holy shit* I'd hate to be Nicholas II's PR guy.
I would hate to be his pr guy I'd be hooked on booze and cigarettes
@@kyleshiflet9952
It's amusing to read all the PR from 1913 (the Romanov tercentenary).
Lots of gullible journalists bought the story that after all the unpleasantness in 1905 things were really looking up.and Tzarism could look forward to a prosperous future.
Side note: Alexander II also spurred industrialization in Russia, including the construction of the first railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1842-51. The history of Russia's railway development was weird; some of it was built by the state, some by state-sanctioned private industry.
Which was how in 1888 Alexander III found himself returning from the Crimea (modern-day Ukraine) to St. Petersburg on the privately owned Kursk-Kharkov-Azov Railway. The railway's director, Sergei Witte, had warned that the royal train in its entirety was too heavy, traveling too fast, and shouldn't be pulled by two locomotives, but the royal train's organizers ignored the warnings. Outside the village of Borki on Oct. 29, 1888, one of the iron rails split and the train derailed at high speed. According to the official report and Witte's memoirs, the imperial family was having breakfast in the dining car when the train derailed and despite his injuries Alexander used his bear-like strength to hold up the roof of the shattered carriage long enough for his family to escape. 21 people were killed in the wreck with another 35 injured. Some scholars have speculated that Alexander's death may have been in part cause by lingering internal injuries he sustained during the train wreck. Sergei Witte, while criticized by some in the royal court for running a substandard railway, was appointed as Director of State Railways and saddled with the task of building the Trans-Siberian Railway on a practically shoestring budget. He would go on to briefly hold office as Prime Minister in one of the 6-month periods when Nicholas II thought parliamentary rule might be worth a try.
P.S. Dear gods, yes! Please, supplementary video on the Voyage of the Damned, the Russian Baltic, er, Second Pacific Squadron! One of the most darkly hilarious "What The Actual Fuck" stories of history.
You confused dates. First railoroad was built under Nicholas1, who ruled until 1854.
> Crimea (modern-day Ukraine)
why did you have to start it
@@pc_suffering6941 Because if I didn't, someone else would.
I’m honestly really conflicted on good old Nicky. On one hand he genuinely seemed like a guy who just really had no business running a country and had enough quirks to make him helplessly likable…but at the same time his authoritarian BS really works in the opposite direction on that. But ultimately I think everyone can agree that he and his family definitely didn’t deserve what they did get in the end.
I agree he didn’t deserve to die.
But also the millions of Russians who died in WW1 probably didn’t deserve to die either.
Basically, his murder is sad, but not surprising considering his actions, tho yeah his entire family was 100% uncalled for.
He did. His family didn't.
Conflicted? He was a piece of sht. The only thing wrong with his demise is that it took too long.
Not to mention he was a racist and called the Japanese yellow rats, then lost the Russo Japanese war to the Japanese
He was the least capable man forcthe job. Lazy to the extreme, weak-minded, massively corrupt, and indecissive to the point other european politics were fed up of his constant opinion switching (proven by the fact none of them gave a shit about his deal with the japanese, and not only because imperialistic rivalries like GB.
Killing the family was uncalled for, but at that point, pretty much everyone in Russia wanted the Romanovs gone for good, and were willing to make anything no matter how sick just to make sure of that.
Nicholas II and his wife actually spent the hours after the stampede praying for the victims; and paid for their funerals. The infamous ball at the French embassy was 4 days later and the imperial couple only attended bc they were convinced it would offend Russia’s major ally but they stayed for 10 minutes. The empress eyes red from crying
Thank you!
Thank you. There's a lot of misinformation here in the comments.
@@nicolasmichiels9972
Whatever they'd done this dreadful incident would have been a very bad omen for the reign but reluctantly attending a ball at the French Embassy compounded the damage.
Aaawww... They made a "thoughts and prayers". Okay then. I guess I have been too hard on poor old autocrat Nicky.
Yeah, that excuses literal serfdom and autocracy and violently punishing any public demonstrations for its reform. Poor old Nicholas
"God bless and keep the Czar...far away from us!"
Holy shit Sam Aronow himself. I bow in respect sir... Your videoes om jewish history are amazing...
Guest voice actors in sam aronow videos: "🤓 In the nine-teenth century, exceptional laws, for the jew-ish people, may only be viewed, as an absurd-ity😇"
Jack Rackham as Pope Pius IX: [booming, operatic baritone] "Who ARE you, what POWER do you HAVE????? What AUTHORITY do you have that would FEED such BOASTFULNESS????"
Agreed!
Always keep ahold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.
We all need a family wizard.
Nicholas II is a great example of someone (at least superficially) who tried his best, but didn't have the experience, knowledge, or common sense, of how to do it, with a World War to put the demise on "TURBO MODE".
Even his brother was slightly more liked.
Ah poor Nicholas II, good husband, loving father, beyond shitty Tsar
Same thing with Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Nice people, good parents, just not ruling material.
It's even more sad considering he was never meant to rule. He became tsar only because his brother died.
@@muhammadrifqi7308Actually, he was the eldest. Louis was a younger sibling, a grandson, and his predecessor was an apathetic lech.
A very good overview of one of the great disastrous rulers of history. Nicholas II was one of those who had the absolute worst instincts for ruling and it showed from start to finish.
Charles I did better, heck Louis XVI at least had a chance at sticking around as a constitutional monarch
At least he was consistent.
@@zhouwu He wasn't even that, he would often flip flop based on whoever had his ear at the moment.
nicholas II was well-known to be one of the best war thunder players in the world in 1917, which is why it's surprising he didn't see total soviet dominion coming
I mean you can think what you want about the Tsar himself, but the murder of his daughters and young son is just sad
Sad, but that’s how politics is, and especially was at the time
the bolshevik's finest moment (because it somehow got worse from then on)
@@Gnostics-Gnightmare man we hate when women get an education and an economic backwater becomes the second largest economic power on earth
Noctem
If the cost is what happened to Russia, then yeah, F those things
@@corneliuscapitalinus845 a fraction of what was done all over the third world with far better results
This is my new favourite Jack Rackham video, just for Rasputins introduction during the photoshoot
I recently listened to a podcast that detailed some of the failed efforts made to get the Czar and his family into exile and safety in England, and it's heartbreaking to think of. So many European royals were related at that point, and they were a close family. Many years earlier, Queen Victoria had opposed the match between her favourite granddaughter and Nicholas specifically because Russia was a dangerous and poorly run country. But once worse came to worse, Queen Victoria was long dead, it was considered politically untenable in England to offer them sanctuary, and the Romanovs were left to their fate.
All good an all, but considering this assholes kiled 14 million people by a family land feud i think they all deserved what they got
I dont get why people like you have such sympathies for royals when they would not have the same for you.
The first world war was basically a family feud between cousins who could have easily sat down and talked it out.
But nope they forced millions of people to fight and die for something that was beyond pointless.
Their actions lead to their own down fall at least in the case of the czar and Kaiser.
The Kaiser basically getting shafted by the weimar and the Nazis.
The czar well the video explained what happened to him.
The British king was the only one who got off Scott free and his parasitic bloodline still rules Britain to this day.
Royalty is a outdated concept that really needs to be deleted as a concept.
In the past they had reasons to exist now they are just the biggest welfare queens and kings on earth.
They need to get off their butts and work like everyone else.
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 same here.
@@ludovicusbathory1715 Please kindly get off your high horse, and stuff the history lesson as you're not telling me anything that I don't already know. As a grown ass woman with a mind of my own, I'm allowed to express my sympathies however I like.
This post is much too generous to Nicky's Brit doppleganger who callously left his cousin to the mercy of the Bolsheviks.
Tsar Nicholas II is definitely one of history’s greatest disappointments. He had everything to be one of Russia’s greatest rulers and was a loving family man, and he blew it with one stupid decision after another
Tsar Nicholas II was history’s greatest disappointment since my son…
Ouch.
He was handed an unwieldy empire that he was expected to rule entirely on his own with training in how to do it. Its hardly a surprise that ended poorly.
@@danz1182 But that's the thing, he wasn't expected to do it all on his own, there were many capable advisors at his side that wanted to reform Russia and a huge group of patriotic liberals who wanted to take up roles in local government and help the empire. But he was so convinced that he absolutely had to be the sole absolute ruler and an unquestioned patriarch that he blew it all, like he genuinely believed in the idea of divine right a century after the French Revolution had consigned that doctrine to the dustbin of history. He often tried to micromanage things for absolutely no reason but at the same time was completely incapable of understanding the realities of a large government. Occasionally he would let a reformer have some control and they'd actually improve things and modernize the economy but then he'd make some kind of abrupt switch. His consistent refusal to liberalize would be his ultimate undoing because it slowly radicalized the Marxist left wing who initially had been fine just supporting liberals until Russia had been fully industrialized but came to believe that it was necessary to take power themselves because Russia would never liberalize or industrialize and everyone was starving or dying in the war.
@hedgehog3180 Exactly. And his wife encouraged his micro-managing behavior and stubbornness. When left on her own during the war, Alexandra made a habit of firing ministers for making practical decisions solely because said decisions involved working with people who didn't have their heads in the clouds.
I love when you upload longer videos and the sidebar remarks while doing do make history even more interesting than when I was watching the history channel as a child. Keep it up!!
This came out right on time.
Her Imperial Highness, Angela Landsbury (the voice of the dowager empress in Anastasia and Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast) died not too long before this video came out.
She truly was a treasure
IIRC his brother declined the throne until a constitution could be drawn up to the benefit of the people, and a western style constitutional monarchy established (likely for PR reasons), but they couldn’t do that until he took the throne so he just turned it down all together.
And they killed him anyway.
Close. The Tsar’s brother, Michael, never declined or renounced the throne. He simply issued a statement deferring his acceptance of it until a constitutional assembly could be convened to determine Russia’s future form of government. That was his position, in its entirety
I’m honestly interested in what his son would have been like as tsar. From what I’ve read he actually seemed to have had the early makings of a good ruler
No such thing as a good Dictator.
It is an interesting concept to think about indeed since Nicholas was actually determined to not repeat the same mistakes his father had with him, and involved Alexei in a lot of his meetings, especially during WWI but by that time, it was too little too late.
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7 It's not true that none exist, but they aren't exactly common.
Nicholas was just surrounded by shitty people though he can transition into a constitutional monarchy and be done with it
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7Modernist cope
Read so many books about Nicholas II he's so interesting
Interesting is certainly a word. I feel before that I might say ineffectual, or myopic, or foolish, or incompetent, or elitist, or dumb, or ill-prepared, or stupid, or bufoonish, or useless, or idiotic, or largely worthless
I found it simply fascinating the way he dug his own grave
@@hillbillypowpow you perfectly described most democraps!
It's interesting in how such an inflexible autocrat made every wrong decision imaginable causing the collapse of an empire.
He believed his burden was passed *to him* by his familial line and by God. Divine ordinance doesn't just mean God chose you to party.
Its hard for us moderns to wrap our heads around but to him that would have been like Christ choosing not to carry the cross or something.
He felt that it was his burden to live up to as best as he was able. Not a value judgement on that system obviously but one needs to understand that to understand him.
"House of special purpose"
That's actually worse than just calling it the execution house
Just like the term "special military operation", some things never change
Well that was actually just a bad code name. The Bolshevieks were trying to keep the location of the royal family a secret because they wanted to use them as a negotiating chip. However the city they were being kept in looked like it was about to be surrounded so the local commander decided to execute them. Ironically an order had actually been sent to note execute them under any circumstances but it arrived a few hours too late. After it happened the Bolshevieks then had to make it look like it was their idea the whole time.
"He looks like he hasn't showered since the time of troubles..."
Is the best quote ever
Sloppy is an understatement when it comes to the muder of the Tsars family. They did some monstrous stuff to that family that night
They got shot just like the many they ordered to be shot. Well deserved.
Good
@@chemicaleye5959 Oooff Commie alert.
@@chemicaleye5959 why is that good? That's disgusting they killed a ill teenager and stabbed young women to death for Pete's sakes
@@chemicaleye5959 most moral commie
It will never make sense to me how to Nicholas didn't want to be Czar and knew full well he was unqualified. Yet fought against any reforms that would've eroded even a little of his absolute power.
He was a very mercurial man, actually liberalish in temperament but very prone to falling out with his advisors, and therefore ignoring their often-progressive advice. Also the Tsarina, who he was putty in the hands of, was a fairly staunch conservative, so that didn't help much, either.
@@lewisirwin5363 he was liberalish except for when he fought to limit the power of the duma and any institution that wouldn't be directly told by him, and that whole Russification thing
@@isaac3140 Exactly
He believed he was special. There was an arrogance in that.
You can’t stay in power through populist appeasement when the organizational integrity of your entire nation is in disarray.
Casually deflecting the firing squad's bullets with jewellery sounds quite badass, though. One of the daughters should have become empress.
They don't want another Catherine the Great situation...
I mean her dad grand dad and great grand dad were pretty bad leaders. Chances are she would have been either a average leader or a bad one as well.
Also alexi was the heir so yeah.
@@ludovicusbathory1715 I think it's more that the Bolshevieks weren't about to install a monarch after just having two revolutions.
Nicholas was just on an "end the monarchy" speed run
Ohhhh I’ve been waiting for this one. I’ve read Nicholas II’s journals so I already know how incompetent he was
Amazing!! These videos keep getting better!
I hope that Gorbachev gets a video soon.
Nicholas II is the type of guy that trips up on every step of the stairs haha
A real stumblefuck
"The last Tsar"
*sad Boris I of Bulgaria noises*
Nice try, but our "last Tsar" is still alive. Simeon II, son of Boris III. He was prime minister for a time as well :D
@@doomdrake123 but he never took the throne, right?
@@londegel He ruled through regency council. I don't know if he was officially enthroned but we reard him as the last Tsar.
There are Romanovs left whose ancestors escaped from Russia. Distant cousins.
Read lots of books on this guy to get different perspectives but even apologists admit dude was just a waste(of Russia's future).. but his crazy wife did say one smart thing; "Russia loves the feel of the whip!"
Lost it at "brave brave brave brave sir robinnnnnn" LOL Excellent Holy Grail ref
7:32: Here’s the crazy part in this story: Both Franz Ferdinand AND his assassin were against annexing Serbia!
Thank you for keeping his story going.
Before the official modern Russia started to heavily police their history, Nikolai II had a very characteristic nickname which can be the best translated to "Doormat Czar". Whether it's a fair nickname is a complicated question to be simply answered in a UA-cam comment, but just so you know his lingering reputation.
If we leave the anti - semitism aside he seems a decent enough person and certainly didn't deserve his horrible fate.
@@alanpennieNicholas was actually quite apathetic in his anti-Semitism. That doesn’t make it better but what I mean is he perceived to be a decent outlet for public anger and little else. The imperial government and the church (at the government’s direction) also did make public condemnations of pogroms during Nicholas’s reign, so that’s something
His nickname was Nicolas the Bloody, coined during the Khodynka stampede and later affirmed by the Bloody Sunday
Just what I needed today, thank you, Jack, for having pristine timing. ❤🔥
Okay just seeing the notification, and then who the biography is about, I couldn't help but laugh and rub my hands together knowing how fun this would be 😂😂
Man its been ages since I caught one of your videos. Glad I had!
"To the Ballroomobile" Tsar Nicolas II
Thanks for the video !!! Learnt so much
"And what a fuss the English are making. It was perfectly natural for your Captain to mistake those English fishing boats for Japanese gunships" said Willykins.
Dear old Wilhelm. Another aristocratic failure.
Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. He really was a stubborn ass.
7:25 "Knock Knock its world war O'clock". I real hope that's not how the future version of Jack Rackam is going to describe what's going on now
You know when you order the Army to put down the protesters, and they tell you I'm sorry sir we're too busy lighting government buildings on fire. You officially failed as an autocrat.
Funny story, in a move that must have been intended entirely as a show of spite against the Soviets, Nicky was made a Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
And his family, and their servants that died alongside them.
Gotta flex that they the Church outlasted those godless Commies and their state-sponsored atheism office...
Plot twist Stalingrad is back apparently so yeah russia is acting really odd right now.
Well it's more some really weird historical revisionism/denialism since literally everyone eventually came to hate Nicholas. Even his close family thought he was a nuisance. No one was really saddened by his death.
@@ludovicusbathory1715 Russia is always acting odd. It must be something in the water.
Wow. I just remembered “belly up” does refer to fish. I remembered a thing today.
“I wanted to watch” holy crap PR guy
You have to do Aisin-Gioro Puyi next! It’s a story a lot of people don’t know and I think would enjoy
Oh yes the Manchu boy emperor who never really had power and was just a puppet of the Japanese. Towards the end of his life he was made to become a groundskeeper and paraded the round by the Communists as a form of humiliation. This fate was worse than death for Puyi
@@nickmoser7785 Really? Puyi was treated quite well by the PRC compared to other royals in communist countries; he even got into a better marriage than compared to his former apathetic one. The PRC even protected Puyi from the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
@@d0cteroof308 I heard that Mao basically kept Puyi around and made them at groundskeeper as a way to humiliate them. But I'm not too sure
@@nickmoser7785 Maybe, but Mao's intentions were more likely of, "Chinese communism is better than Russian communism because our monarchs have turned communist and are alive".
@@d0cteroof308I mean it helped that Puyi never had any children and his wife died in custody in a pool of her own fluids due to severe withdrawal from opiates
Nicholas, people obly love war when they’re WINNING, if at all.
It seems like the reason why these monarchs were Slaughtered was more because they were weak than because they were evil.
I will say you do the best sponsorship promos and you're the only I don't skip the promotion
Nicholas II, it's the thought that counts
Idk how but the PR guy is probably the heaviest drinker of them all
i dont care if they kill the tsar and his wife but should have left the children alone
300 years of hereditary brutal rule and mismanagement will legitimise children/future heirs as a valid political target.
Also the Bolsheviks targeted any member of the Romanov family. They even murdered a member who'd resigned royal life to become a nun. The only members of the family that are alive today are those that fled at the first sign of trouble.
The Russian Revolution was exceedingly brutal but given the way that family had lorded over the place, it's understandable why.
Nah, you can’t have direct claimants to the throne, sometimes you just got to do what you got to do
Communists believe killing everyone is equal
@@chemicaleye5959 they didn't kill the kids of the Habsburgs, Bonapartists, Bourbons, Savoys etc and none of those monarchies exist anymore. Heck, even the Chinese Communist party kept the child emperor alone
@@chemicaleye5959 that's just bs.
Jack, you are the Spanish Inquisition of Ad Breaks.
Jacks really on a “monarch’s kicked out in ww1,” kick lately,
Maybe Ferdinand of Bulgaria next?
Now that we have Nick, Willy and Franz episodes I wonder if Jack will make an episode about George V, because this guy was so boring that even his biographer called him tedious.
He had his moments, he had some style...
George V said about himself, "I am a very ordinary person".
Shoutout to that Monty Python's minstrel song reference. Brave, brave Sir Robin
He shouldn't have been so shocked, the two revolutions were a long time coming!
I liked the video, but truth is that Rasputin get a really worst reputation than he deserves.
He was strange, a womanizer and a drunkard (as the average russian), but he also was a devout who travelled the world by foot and was sincerely invested in the people of Russia, more than the Tsar itself. He adviced the Tsar against going the war all together and to focus on improving the well being of Russia people, and the Romanov family, mainly the mother and children, actually liked his company.
What a coinkeydink that I get a notification of this upload right when I’m listening to Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast on the Russian Revolution.
I had covid and listened to it straight through basically for the full 52 hours continuously
Huge mistake 10/10
The PR guy is actually just Sergei Witte
Hey, those Fishermen had VERY sharp harpoons!
We dont want to buy your Mobile-Tier game.
I mean giving them the benefit of the doubt the family did want to stay in and pray for all the people that died during the stampede but they were told not too which in the long run was not a great decision😬
Nicholas I: Dude, I was a freakin' monster and you didn't say anything about me... the deception.
That guy is fucking Orthodox saint nowadays.
@@alexzero3736 So is Olga of Kiev... and she wasn't the nicest gal to invite to your wedding.
I like the History of the World Part 1 reference.
The one thing I can commend the man on is his appreciation for traditional Russian fashion, art and architecture over baroque
Damn.... and here I thought Charles I of England was an incompetent ruler.
I lost my shit when Rasputin showed up
"He's the family wizard!"
If Murphy's law went into effect for solely one man
1:25: Alexander II abolished serfdom because he desperately needed labor force in the newly created and developing industry, while the landowners wouldn't let go of their serfs who were slaving in the fields for them (and didn't have the right to leave without their masters' permission. Abolition of serfdom was not done out of charity nor for any kind of humanitarian reasons. The so "freed" serfs would be treated just as poorly, overworked, underpaid and exploited to the same degree in the factories etc. as they were in landgoods.
I’d say the saddest thing of the end of the Russian Empire was on what happened to the Tsar’s children. Nicholas II wasn’t an evil person just badly advised and was bad so to leadership but his family didn’t deserve what happened to them.
He was a very poor tsar.
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Well this video suddenly became very freaking topical
"The whole operation was sloppy both literally and metaphorically"
And people wonder why I fear soldiers when they smile at me 😬😑😐
We need you in history classes.
Tsar Nicholas II was a foolish Tsar. The man was woefully incompetent.🤦♂️
Im on my 4th watch and only now I get the "the people are revolting" line
Oh, well it's about time Catherine II got a mention!
A belligerent, impatient and imperialistic Japan attacked Russia without warning at Port Arthur in 1905, just as it attacked the USA without warning at Pearl Harbour in 1941. Russian unpreparedness came in part because it had spent so little on its armed forces - unlike the aggressive Western nations and their imitator - Japan. It was Tsar Nicholas who had proposed international disarmament at the Hague. To accuse this peacemaker of starting the war to create national unity is simply a myth of those who know no history. With only about a quarter of Western European and Japanese military spending, a peace-directed Russia was ill-equipped to fight a war thousands of miles from its capital. To blame the Tsar for Japanese aggression or the disastrous inefficiency of individuals in his administration before and during that war is hardly just.
had to double check the 🐉tattoo, is so ludicrous I can't thnk of it a trolling .but really wanted it to be true and it is!
Very smooth War Thunder transition! 👌 😎
So sad this documentary forget the giant tricycle tank Tsar Nicolas built to win WW1 which got stuck in the mud on its first test and was too heavy to recover.
Are you going to do Alfonso XIII and the First Spanish Republic? Does he count if the Borbons came back at the end?
Dude, so good