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 * Czar Nicolaus II**



Czar Nicholas II was a very smart and intelligent man in European history. He was born in May of 1868 in Tsarskoye Selo which is now called Pushkin. Nicolaus was a very important member of the Russian government and he was also one of the Russian emperors. Nicholas was extremely smart and well educated and was one of the top members of his class. Since his family was so royal, he was often surrounded by bodyguards so Nicholas was often secluded from the whole world. He was often narrow-minded because he did not know how people lived in the world and he didn't take their ideas to be right. After he was named Czar, he often relied on others for most of the information he knew. Without those few people in his life, he would have never known how to rule the country. Czar Nicholas and his family were put under house arrest and in July of 1918 were executed.



In 1905, a demonstration took place called Bloody Sunday. Many people believed that the Czar was the protector of his people and so the group was peacefully marching on the streets carrying icons and portraits of Nicholas and he refused to meet them. He ordered to have the innocent people fired upon. This killed hundreds of innocent people and public opinion turned against the Czar. To help calm the unrest in the country, Nicolas agreed to the October Manifest which gave people civil liberties. This day was the turning point of Russian history. After this demonstration took place, many strikes took place and some universities even shut down. Czar was not a loyal leader by killing these few hundred innocent people.



When Nicholas was appointed Czar, he did many things for his country to make sure it stayed safe. He always put his country before anything else in his life. In foreign policy, he took steps to make sure to stabilize the international situtaion. In other words, he tried to make sure that the whole nation was aware of the situtation and he tried to make it better for everyone. Czar Nicholas also commanded the Russians in the largest international war to date. I don't think Czar Nicholas was a good leader because he was a cruel and brutal man. He relied heavily on others to tell him what to do and he did not speak for himself. In Animal Farm, Czar Nicholas's counterpart was Mr. Jones. They were both very cruel men who treated their country and their animals very harshly. Mr. Jones and Nicholas did not care about their responsibilities and basically gave up on them. Even though Czar Nicholas did put his country before anything at first, he later did not care about them and only cared about himself. Mr. Jones was the same exact way. At the beginning he was always on top of things and then he started to slack off and really not care.

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