How The Romanov Family Affect The Romanov Family

Many people do not realize what affects the Romanov family had on Russia, and what an important role they played for its future. The romanov family is an intriguing topic for many different reasons such as when Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov ( Nicholas II) was a child, to the time he started his family, his ruling as Tsar, and the day his family was massacred.
Nicholas II and his father, Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov (Alexander III), had differences, but agreed only on one subject; Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov was not fit to rule Russia. Alexander III was “brutish despot” who ruled the people of Russia with Aristocracy. Alexander III saw his son as not worthy of the throne (Atchison). He worried that what he had worked so hard to accomplish would be destroyed by his son who had no lessons in how to rule a country. Nicholas II, as a child, was sheltered from his parents; and the Russian people’s point of views, or beliefs, and he developed an outlook toward his future with “honor, service and tradition” (Atchison). Nicholas enjoyed the military field and had an “excellent education and was perhaps the best educated European monarch of his time.” Nicholas II wanted to please
Soon after becoming Tsar he would ask Alix for support instead of trusting the “bureaucrats and sycophants” (Atchison). Nicholis would shy away and find himself lonely throughout his reign (Atchison). Nicholas II knew that his time as Tsar would be short lived and his people had grown tired and angry with him. He believed the only reason Russia was still holding “at the seams” was because of the monarchy (Atchison). This led to the Revolution in February of 1917 which was an “uproar” (Biography). Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov on March 15, 1917 abdicated and was put on house arrest, along with his family, at the Ural Mountains