The Tsar leadership before the 1905 Russian Revolution was not supported by the Russian people. Tsar Nicholas II inherited the throne in 1894 when his father Alexander III passed. Alexander III believed in ruling Russia with an autocracy, when Tsar Nicholas II inherited the throne he wanted to do right by his father by upholding the autocracy. Tsar Nicholas II’s wife Alexandra highly influenced Nicholas’s autocratic tendencies. Majority of the Russian people believed that Alexandra had too much of a significant impact on the Tsar leadership. The History Learning Site (2015) states in their article that Nicholas was viewed as a family man and was easily influenced into political stances by his wife which upset and angered many people she met. The BBC website …show more content…
The Russian people were more than disappointed when Nicholas and his wife attend the balls hours after the horrific deaths pretending that nothing happened. The Russian people believed the new Tsar only cared for his family and for the people in his gilded circle due to his response of the event that occurred. The Russian Ruler History testified that the lack of leadership on Tsar Nicholas II behalf was blamed on Alexander III. Alexander III frequently reused to train and lead Nicholas for the position because Alexander III didn’t believe that Nicholas was ever going to take the throne. Many Russian people had many doubts about the Tsar regime but held much hope that the Tsar was going to lead Russia to greatness.
Due to the mistreatment of peasants, they were forced order a peaceful petition for greater work condition. Bloody Sunday occurred on the 22nd of January in which the march to the Winter palace was supposed to be peaceful and merely a cry for help to Tsar turned into a violent