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ALEXANDRA

• Alexandra was the Empress of Russia.
• She was married to Tsar Nicholas II.
• She was related to Queen Elizabeth

BLOODY SUNDAY

• 150-200 men,woman, and children were shot and killed.
• 450-800 were wounded.
• This event caused hatred toward Tsar Nicholas.

COMMUNISM

• Communism took over after the fall of the Tsar Dynasty.
• Lenin brought the idea of communism after learning Marxism.
• Main aspects of communism and tsarist rule were the same but also very different.

DUMA

• The Duma was a legislative assembly in the late Russian Empire.
• The tsar had complete power over the duma.
• There were four dumas created and disbanded before the fall of the Russian Empire.

EXECUTION

• Many people were executed during Nicholas II rule.
• Many peasants were executed after Bloody Sunday just for being on the street.
• The royal family was also executed in July 1918.

FAILURE

• Many people in the royal family felt like failures.
• Alexandra felt like a failure because she was the cause of Alexei's hemophilia.
• Nicholas felt he had failed because he lost the Russian empire.

GIBBES

• He was the royal children's teacher.
• He claimed the children had no formal teachings.
• He said the older children were very well mannered.
• The younger ones were a little more frivolous.

HEMOPHILIA

• The only son of the Tsar was was diagnosed with hemophilia
• He got the disease from his mother at birth.
• He had to be very careful not injure himself .
• The lack of clotting in the blood would cause him to bleed to death.

INTROVERT

• Nicholas and Alexandra rarely hosted parties or gathering.
• They mainly kept to themselves.
• When in public, they would barely participate in conversation.

JEOPARDY

• The lifes of many were in jeopardy.
• Imperial Russia was at stake.
• Everything in the royal family was about to be lost, even their lifes.

KIND

• The tsar and his wife, to people that knew them, were kind and generous.
• They were said to be a happy family.
• They were very kind and generous to their children.

LENIN

• He lead the revolution against Tsar Nicholas
• He Replaced the Russian Empire with the Soviet Union
• He became mute before his death after having three strokes.

MARX

• He created marxism.
• His ideas were used to create the communist government of Russia.
• He was a very educated man who was the source of Lenin's political knowledge.

NICHOLAS

• He was the last tsar of Imperial Russia.
• HIs father didn't prepare him to be tsar.
• His father didn't think he'd be a good ruler.
• Nicholas was misunderstood by most people.

OLGA

• Olga was the first born dutchess.
• She nursed wounded soldiers until her own nerves gave out.
• Her official title means "Grand Princess".

PEASANTS

• Many people were poor in Imperial Russia.
• They were the main cause of the revolution.
• They made up most of the population and were treated very badly.

QUIRKY

• Alexandra was always said to be weird or awkward.
• She converted from a different faith so the subjects thought she was different.
• She also had a different sense of style so people thought she was awkward.

RASPUTIN

• He was a russian peasant.
• Rasputin claimed to be a mystical healer.
• Tsar Nicholas thought he could heal Alexei of hemophilia.

ST. PETERSBURG

• The royal family lived in St. Petersburg.
• Bloody Sunday took place here in front of Alexander palace.
• The palace there is now a museum.

TSAR

• The Tsar was the ruler of Russia before 1917.
• The Tsar in Russia controlled everything in government.
• All decision made by the Tsar were final and could not be changed by anyone but himself.
• The Tsar Dynasty ended with the overthrow and execution of the Romanov family.

UNJUST

• Some things that were done were unfair.
• The lower classes were dying because of the government.
• Many people had very bad living conditions and diseases.

VICTORIA

• Queen Victoria was Alexandra's grandmother.
• She taught Alexandra how to rule.
• She was very close to her grandchildren and family.
• Alexandra used many of her teachings to help Nicholas rule Russia.