As bad as Czarist Russia was, what followed (though not right away) was much, much worse. Yuge. Big-time. It's a pity Russia had two revolutions instead of just the first one.
Apparently, it's not just Julius Caesar who needed to "beware the Ides of March."
Russia was the only nation post Napoleon, that threatened British dominance of the Middle East, India, and the Far East. They had to keep them corked-up by any means necessary.
They only had a use for them when Germany became a bigger threat before 1914. And even after the Czar quit, he and his family were not even allowed into Britain by order of the British royals! Left to their deaths.
Sending the Black Sea fleet out of the Bosporus, through the Mediterranean, past the Strait of Gibraltar and ALL around Africa (he wasn't allowed to use the Suez Canal), then across the Indian Ocean so that they could fight the Japanese navy off the coast of Korea (at issue was Manchuria which didn't count for squat among the starving proles in Moscow) only to be smashed to smithereens...
THAT didn't endear himself to the Russian people much.