Romanian Eagle

The actions of Russian officials have made the country even worse. According to post-mortem statistics, in 1916 Russia lost 2.18 million tons of material, many of which were reported as accidents.

One of the biggest losses, three large oil tankers full of crude oil disappeared above the Black Sea. At that time, everyone thought that the Ottoman navy had captured them, but a year later, someone who worked on it had seen similar ships in Romania, but it is not known whether it was specific or not.

Romania is making deals with officials wantonly, so that the people who are increasingly dissatisfied because of the high price of living materials are finally unwilling to bear it. On January 24, 1917, the workers in St. Petersburg could no longer accept this kind of life. About 140,000 men and women workers in 50 factories held strikes and marches, kicking off the revolution. The next day, the number of people participating in the strike demonstration increased to 200,000.

Mass strikes and demonstrations were also held in Moscow, Kharkov, Baku and other cities. "The idea of ​​a general strike is gaining new followers day by day and is as popular as it was in 1905," the then chief of the Petrograd police said in a report to the interior minister.

At this time, the panicked people appealed to the tsar, hoping that the tsar would let them join power. As in history, Nicholas II simply ignored the wishes of the people and threatened to dissolve the State Duma. In order to support the people, the socialists who organized the strike invited workers to stage a peaceful demonstration near the Tafrida Palace, the seat of the national parliament, demanding that the parliament establish a government that would allow "the people to live." This would increase the prestige of the parliament and put pressure on the tsar.

At the same time there were other voices in the strike. Slogans such as "Down with the Tsarist monarchy!" "War against war!" "Long live the Provisional Revolutionary Government!" also appeared in the parade, which was also one of the roles of the Bolshevik Party for this parade. It was only at the time that most of its top leaders were abroad (the slogans were too radical to stay in Russia), so when this popular dissatisfaction broke out, the Bolshevik Party had very limited influence on the revolution.

But the Bolsheviks made it a major task to win the army for a change of direction. The Bolsheviks organized workers into barracks, outposts, patrols, and persuaded the soldiers not to shoot at the people. Because of the domestic chaos and poor performance in the war, the soldiers gradually lost their loyalty to the tsar and began to sympathize with the people.

This also allowed the Bolshevik Party to develop very smoothly in the army. The number of people who joined the revolution in the army gradually increased from less than 500 on the 24th to more than 60,000. Many more soldiers remained neutral because of sympathy for the people.

Seeing a large number of popular riots against him in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II's first reaction was to suppress it first, as in 1905.

Because on January 22, 1905 (January 9 in the Julian calendar), the Orthodox cleric, Father Gepan, led a worker organization of about 30,000 people to demonstrate peacefully in the square outside the Hermitage.

The purpose is to submit a petition to the tsar to express the hardships and oppression of the working class and the people at the bottom of the society, to ask the tsar to carry out social reforms and end the Russo-Japanese War, and to expect no overtime work and reasonable treatment.

However, when the armed soldiers who were in charge of guarding the palace at the time confronted the demonstrators, the crowd had gradually increased to 200,000 people. Soldiers later fired warning shots into the air, and shortly afterward shot at the crowd, who fled in panic and shoved, and Fr. Guepon was killed in the chaos. It is estimated that there were about 1,000 casualties. This bloody repression caused public outrage, and the Russian people no longer looked to the Tsar.

In fact, after the events of 1905, the Russian political parties no longer pursued the Tsar's compromise. The fact that the tsar, now known as Little Daddy, turned against the people is also a satire of the Romanov dynasty that has ruled for more than 300 years.

At that time, Tsar Nicholas II was in the Imperial Village, and after receiving a report from Khabalov, commander of the Petrograd Military District, on the situation in the capital, he ordered a crackdown on the Petrograd strike movement. However, because of the soldiers' sympathy for the people, refusal to carry out the order made Nicholas II's situation even worse.

"These traitors, they are betraying the government. When we were fighting Germany and Austria, they incited the people behind their backs to sabotage the war."

Nicholas II scolded the revolutionary groups with a red face in the imperial village, and the army was not listening to his orders overnight, which made him terrified. He has never figured out what kind of situation, so that the army did not listen to the commander's orders overnight.

"what should we do?"

Queen Alexandra looked at her husband angrily scolding the political group that launched the riot, and asked with a sad face.

Queen Alexandra's reputation in Russia was not good, not only was she not as good as her predecessor's model Ekaterina, but after the outbreak of the war, there were rumors that the Queen was a German spy. Although this rumor quickly subsided, it can be seen from here that the Queen's evaluation in Russia is not very good.

Not to mention that when Nicholas II was on the front line to supervise the battle, the queen cited the demon monk Rasputin as a spiritual sustenance. Let this illiterate Siberian peasant disrupt the operation of the Russian government at court. It was not until a month ago that the royalist Yusupov and others killed the demon monk. It is a pity that the royalists acted too late, and because the people could not survive, their dissatisfaction with the government and the tsar reached new heights.

"Now we need to stall for time, and there are troops on the front line loyal to me."

After hearing his wife's cry, Nicholas II thought about sending the army to suppress it, which is really a wooden fish head. In fact, it is not that Nicholas II is stupid, but because he has too much blood of revolutionaries on his hands, whether it is from his orders or not. Many revolutionaries regarded him as the biggest reactionary leader in Russia, so Nicholas II feared that his life would be difficult to guarantee after his rights were taken away.

However, those who participated in the revolution had already anticipated the actions of the tsar. The Octobrist Ya. I. Guchkov and the State Duma representative, V. V. Schulgen, representing the revolutionary group, went to the Imperial Village for a showdown with Nicholas II. And these revolutionary groups also called for large numbers of troops to defect and prevented troops loyal to the tsar from entering St. Petersburg.

After seeing that he could do nothing to change all this, Nicholas II abdicated on January 31 to his younger brother Mikhail. The next day, Mikhail also announced his abdication. In this way, the Romanov dynasty, which had ruled Russia for 304 years, was overwhelmed by the revolution. The Russian democratic revolution was victorious.

From January 24th to 31st, the Romanov dynasty collapsed in just 8 days, catching the Entente and Allied countries still fighting on the battlefield by surprise. However, there are two provisional governments in this revolution, which will also have certain variables for the future situation in Russia.