... ". However, the facts in this essay speak for themselves. In the winter of 1869 Grigorii Yfimovich Rasputin was born in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye. Little is known or accessible of his background. His father, Yfimy, was a farmer, married to Anna. They already had an older son - Dimitri. ... to participate for patriotic motives. One evening at a meeting of Russian officials, it was decided that Rasputin was putting the entire nation in danger. Prince Felix Yusupov, Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (a member of the duma), and the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich (the Czar's cousin),...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , well being and his "friendships". After the death of Alexis in 1676, it was the duty of General Menesius to find the proper tutors for, and tend to the young prince. However, Sophia had found a way to disband Menesius from his work and find a way more suitable to her wishes to raise the young Peter. What Sophia had decided to do ... was to place the young prince in his own place in a little village a good distance away from Moscow. She arranged for some fifty boys to accompany him to serve as his playmates. Sophia's intentions were to let the boys ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Rostov, a teenage girl who grows and matures throughout the book and Pierre Bezuhov, the son of Kirill Vladmirovitch Bezuhov, who speaks much of the novel expressing his purpose on earth. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the leader of the Bolkonsky family and a great war hero. The bad people are the protagonists themselves, as they torment themselves and Napoleon Bonaparte, (who, by some, is ... this class served in hospitals and became nurses, like Natasha Rostova did, or hid wounded soldiers in their house from the French army. Men from this class organized their own little armies of peasants...

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... comprehend the need for reform in Russia. They both believed in three sacred beliefs: the Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality and these ideologies left little room for new ideas or the development of Russia. Russia was living in an age far behind the rest of Europe and the ... subtle ones, founded as much on ignorance, superstition and a strange love, as on fear. Consequently the peasants not only saw little possibility for change but also showed little desire to achieve it."" Tsar Nicholas II, supported by Alexandra, not only had poor advisers but a hugely corrupt system working ... ...

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... Russia. However Russia is the nation which has lent itself to the 'Great Men' of history. These men were not great in a sense of achievement, mercy, honour or as a Renaissance prince; these men were great because Russia allowed them to rule as Autocrats. The development of the USSR can be considered the result of the blank canvas which Russia presented to ... the other hand suggests that "By October 1917 the Bolsheviks were in a position to succeed in seizing power from the provisional government although by this time the Provisional Government wielded little power of its own"3 Phillips...

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... melted away. After she accepted the proposal the European branch of the family, who had been anxiously awaiting this engagement, rejoiced. Even Queen Victoria, who originally favoured Alix for the Prince of Wales in England, sent Her guards to play under Nicholas' window the next morning in honour of the engagement. Although very much in love, Alix wanted to learn the ... Imperial family, with many of their friends, were held under house arrest at Tsarksoe Selo. She burned papers, letters, anything that might portray a German alliance, even though she was innocent. Little wonder the ill...

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... -commissioned officer training. In his recorded memoirs he pointed to the problem within the Russian Imperial Army that the majority of aristocratic generals and officers neglected their troops and had little understanding, or esprit connection, with the ordinary peasant soldiers. He had been decorated for his bravery, and been wounded too, by March 1917 as the revolution, and change of government ... 's 60,000 battle force were killed, and probably another 20,000 wounded, the imperial family was mortified by the desertion of Lieutenant Higashikuni, the twenty-three-year-old son of Prince...

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