1. Nicholas II character

Question 1

Who tutored Nicholas?

Answer 1

Pobedonstev

Question 2

What was the impact of Pobedonstev on Nicholas childhood?

Answer 2

He was Nicholas’ tutor

Question 3

What was the soviet view of Nicholas?

Answer 3

Cruel

Question 4

What was the nickname given to Nicholas in the soviet view

Answer 4

Bloody Nicholas

Question 5

Who gave Nicholas the name bloody Nicholas?

Answer 5

Soviets

Question 6

What did Nicholas not have in the administration process?

Answer 6

Private secretary

Question 7

What did Nicholas insist on doing?

Answer 7

Dealing with trivial matters

Filing or putting royal seal in envelopes

Question 8

What was last on the Tsars mind?

Answer 8

Discussions with ministers over state affairs

Question 9

At what point when the country needed him did the Tsar consider trivial matters?

Answer 9

Russia’s involvement in war

Question 10

How did the Tsar portray a sense of duty?

Answer 10

Took command of Russian military in the First World War

Question 11

When did Nicholas take command of the Russian Military?

Answer 11

During the First World War

Question 12

What did entering the war cause?

Answer 12

Patriotism within the educated classes

Question 13

What was Nicholas attitude towards governing?

Answer 13

Based of faith in god
Sense of duty
Rigid belief in autocracy

Question 14

What did the Tsar believed were linked

Answer 14

Religion and Tsari

Question 15

When was Nicholas dependence on God shown?

Answer 15

Fundamental laws stated that the Russian Emperor possessed supreme autocratic powers and God commands obedience to his authority

Question 16

When did Nicholas say Russian Emperor possessed supreme autocratic powers and God commands obedience to his authority

Answer 16

1906 fundamental law

Question 17

What right did Nicholas believe in?

Answer 17

Divine right

Question 18

When was Nicholas coronation?

Answer 18

May 1896

Question 19

What happened in May 1896?

Answer 19

Nicholas Coronation

1,400 people killed and 600 injured in Khodynka field

Question 20

When were 1,400 people killed and 600 injured in Khodynka field

Answer 20

May 1896

Question 21

Where were 1,400 people killed and 600 injured in May 1896

Answer 21

in Khodynka field

Question 22

What did Nicholas do after 1,400 killed and 600 injured in Khodynka field on May 1896?

Answer 22

Went to a party

Question 23

What did article 31 say?

Answer 23

Emperor is autocratic and unlimited monarch

Question 24

What dynasty was Nicholas II a part of?

Answer 24

Romanov

Question 25

Who did Nicholas believe have him the right to be Tsar?

Answer 25

God (Orthodox Church)

Question 26

What reforms did Alexander II introduce?

Answer 26

Emancipation of serfs in 1861 Zemstvas (local council) More universities and schools Refined the army and supplied them more effectively

Question 27

``` What Tsar introduced the Emancipation of serfs in 1861 Zemstvas (local council) More universities and schools Refined the army and supplied them more effectively ```

Answer 27

Alexander II

Question 28

When did Alexander II emancipate the serfs

Answer 28

1861

Question 29

What did Alexander II do in 1861

Answer 29

Emancipate the serfs

Question 30

What did Nicholas do after the Klodynka fields?

Answer 30

Attended a French ball

Question 31

Why was the choice of Nicholas wife problematic

Answer 31

Dominated Nicholas’ decision and pushed for him to be more conservative

Question 32

At what age did Nicholas come to the throne in 1894?

Answer 32

26

Question 33

What did Nicholas say when his father died?

Answer 33

He wept and said ‘I am not prepared to be a Tsar. I never wanted to become one’

Question 34

When had Nicholas wept and said ‘I am not prepared to be a Tsar. I never wanted to become one’?

Answer 34

When he was informed of his fathers death

Question 35

What did Nicholas believe caused revolutionary ideas?

Answer 35

Product of ‘dark forces’ and attributed them to the Jewish minority plotters and university student

Question 36

What did Nicholas believe was the product of ‘dark forces’ and attributed them to the Jewish minority plotters and university student?

Answer 36

Revolutionary ideas

Question 37

What did Nicholas do in 1890?

Answer 37

Went on a world tour where he was able to visit Egypt, India, Singapore and Japan. In each area, he was honoured as a distinguished guest

Question 38

When had Nicholas went on a world tour where he was able to visit Egypt, India, Singapore and Japan?

Answer 38

1890

Question 39

How was Nicholas treated in his 1890 world tour?

Answer 39

In each area, he was honoured as a distinguished guest

Question 40

What happened to Nicholas in his 1890 world tour when he went to Japan?

Answer 40

Attacked by one of his excoriating policemen, leaving them with a 9cm scar

Question 41

How did Witte describe Nicholas?

Answer 41

More intelligent than his father