Nicholas II inherited the Russian throne when his father died of kidney disease at the age of 49 on October 20, In fact, he confessed to a close friend, "I am not prepared to be a tsar.
I never wanted to become one. I know nothing of the business of ruling. Once he ascended the throne, Nicholas II had to marry and have children expediently, in order to secure a future heir to the throne. Although a figure in the public eye, Empress Alexandra was something of a homebody, who preferred to spend the majority of her time at the palace at Tsarskoe Selo. The couple had their first child, a daughter named Olga, in The following year, Nicholas II was officially crowned as the tsar of Russia.
During a mobbed public celebration of the coronation near Moscow, thousands of people were stampeded to death. Unaware of the event, Nicholas II and Alexandra were all smiles as they went on to celebrate the coronation at a ball. In the couple gave birth to a second daughter, Tatiana.
She was followed by a third, named Maria, in and a fourth, named Anastasia , in In Alexandra gave birth to the longed-for male heir, Alexei. Desperate to find an effective treatment for Alexei, Nicholas II and Alexandra even went so far as to let the monk Rasputin hypnotize the boy.
The emperor proved such a devoted family man that his journal entries, which were meant to log official affairs of state, instead focused on the everyday goings-on of his wife and kids. But, in the s, as Russia experienced economic growth, it began to expand its industry into the Far East.
Foreign investment within the country was at an all time high. His Father, Alexander II was within hours of granting the country its first constitution. His older brother and heir to the throne, Nicholas, died in The young Grand Duke was greatly influenced by his tutor Constantine Petrovich Pobedonostsev who instilled into him conservative fundamentals of autocracy, Orthodoxy and nationalism that were required to govern the Russian Empire. Pobedonostsev believed that all opposition to the government be ruthlessly crushed and viewed liberal ideas as constitutions and free press as a threat to the state.
With the death of his brother, Alexander inherited more than just the title of Tsarevich. After her conversion to Orthodoxy, she took the name of Marie Fedorovna. Their first child, Nicholas, was born in and would be the last Tsar of Russia. Their second child, George, was born in followed by Xenia , Michael and Olga George died at 27 of tuberculosis in Michael is sometimes considered 'Tsar for a day', as Nicholas abdicated in his favor in before he, too, renounced the throne.
The Bolsheviks murdered Michael six days before Nicholas and his family in July Xenia and Olga were able to escape Russia along with their mother during the Revolution. The reign of Alexander III began in tragedy. On March 1, , on the eve of the signing into law Russia's first constitution, two assassins threw bombs at the Tsar's carriage in St. Alexander II was mortally wounded and died shortly thereafter.
Russia's hopes for a constitution also died that day. One cannot fault Alexander's reaction to his father's death. His father, the Tsar Liberator, had freed the serfs, predating Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by two years. One can only imagine the rage he, his wife and children felt as they watched the Tsar bleed and die in a St Petersburg palace.
This event would solidify the reactionary tone of his year reign. As a result of the assassination, Alexander III would not consider granting the constitution. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material. This website uses cookies. Click here to find out more. Royal diseases: 4 Russian rulers and heirs leveled by sickness History. Feb 21 Oleg Yegorov. It was a kidney disease that killed Peter I Public Domain.
Here are four such stories. Peter the Great: neurological problems, asthma, kidney disease Yet another painting of Peter I on his deathbed, by Ivan Nikitin.
Public domain. Vladimir Lenin in his Gorky residence, in a wheelchair, months before his death. He died in quite suddenly. After developing high temperature, the Tsar deteriorated over several days, took icy baths and demanded kvass [fermented beverage made from rye bread] so cold that ice particles clinked against the sides of the glass.
The swelling in the legs is traditionally attributed by many historians and researchers to scurvy, or a deficiency of vitamin C. But was it really the case that the tsars, who were served refined dishes and always had fruit and vegetables on their dining table, particularly in the second half of the century, had such a lack of it in their diet?
Tsar Feodor's menu for the Dormition Fast late August was as follows: "Raw and heated cabbage, salted milk agaric and orange agaric mushrooms, both raw and heated, dishes made with berries, currant compote, rose hip compote.
Meanwhile, Feodor Alekseyevich died at the age of 21 - also of "scurvy", while his younger brother Ivan Alexeyevich , who co-reigned with Peter, also had "ailing legs", suffered from oedema and died at the age of What was this "mysterious malady" which foreign physicians referred to as "debility", "dropsy" or "scurvy"? One thing is noteworthy - all the Romanovs who suffered from it lived in apartments in the Kremlin in Moscow.
It may be recalled that Peter [the Great] was the son of Alexei Mikhailovich with his second wife, Natalya Naryshkina , who was 19 at the time of their marriage. She was no fan of "cloistered apartments" - the secluded way of life of the Russian tsarinas and princesses - and preferred the freer set-up in the palace at Preobrazhenskoye.
In this she was followed by her son Peter, who hated the Kremlin and lived in Preobrazhenskoye and Lefortovo, and then swapped Moscow for St Petersburg altogether. Researchers believe that the first Romanovs were laid low by poor metabolism.
Could the early Romanovs have been poisoned? One theory is that it was all the result of the lead inner lining of the wooden pipes of the palace plumbing there was no running water at Preobrazhenskoye. Could substances resulting from the chemical breakdown of lead, ingested by the tsars along with their drinking water, have produced the unexplained symptoms? Or was the cause perhaps a hereditary disease of the kidneys? Whatever the case, only a post-mortem examination and analysis of the remains of the first Romanovs, particularly Feodor and Ivan Alexeyevich, might be able to reveal the truth.
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Russian tsars fell ill for the same two reasons as their subjects - insalubrious surroundings and their own ignorance. Nicholas II recovering from the typhoid fever in Crimea Public domain.
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