[HypatiaTaught]

Good!

[NRx]

+1

[Cronos]

While the Tsar's wife and kids definitely did not deserve to die and the Tsar did not deserve to die so cruelly, we must not portray Tsar Nicholas as some martyr (I know he's called as such by the ROC, but in my opinion this is incorrect -- correct me if you believe otherwise)

He made promises to create a representative Duma (parliament) after the 1905 defeat to Japan, but he did this only to calm sentiment and then a year later cut off the head of the Duma.

He persistently didn't end the autocracy that is Russia and thereby made the March revolution inevitable (not the October, the March one).

Tsar Nicholas also continued with his Russification policies in the Baltic states, in Poland, in Georgia etc.that created heavier anti-Russian feelings

Finally, he went into war with 70 year old generals who thought of fighting with fortresses.

He was a part of history, but he was no hero imho