land of the tsars part 4

what did nicholas I do with the Decembrists?

sent them to siberia

who was Russia's great poet and national hero? How did he die?

Alexander Pushkin, killed by a guardsman in a duel

the ____ war showed that Russia was not as powerful as poeple thought

crimean

how did nicholas I die?

pneumonia

what kinds of reforms did alexander II institute?

New industries, liberate Russia's serfs . Industrialize Russia. Started trial by jury. Pardoned Decembrist. Abolished death penalty. New railways. Ended censorship

when did Alexander II sign the emancipation manifesto and free the serfs?

1861

For freeing serfs Alexander II was called the Czar-_____________

Liberator

Russia went to war with _____ in 1904

japan

Tsar Nicholas II's heir, Alexei, suffered from what disease.

hemophilia

Hundreds of protestors were killed by the Winter Palace guards on Bloody _______

Sunday

Nicholas II signed the ____ Manifesto, which granted the people basic civil rights

October

A mesmerizing Siberian mystic named ____ was brought in to help Alexei

Rasputin

Russia lost over ____ million men during WWI

8

the ______ uprisings of 1917 ultimately led to full scale revolution

february

Tsar Nicholas was forced to _____ or give up his throne, in March of 1917

abdicate

Vladimir Lenin's _______ stormed the Duma in October of 1917 leading to a bloody civil war

Bolsheviks

who was the last of the Romanov Czars? What happned to him and his family.

Czar Nicholas II. They were told they were being moved to a new place and were killed by Lenin's red army soldiers