The Last Tsar | The Life & Times of Nicholas II
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The case of the murdered monarchies continues! Russia is far and away the most famous monarchy to crumble to dust, and boy did it ever. When Nicholas II became Tsar, he told his brother-in-law, and I quote “I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I never wanted to become one. I know nothing about the business of ruling”. He then spent the next 23 years fighting tooth and nail to hold onto absolute power. Imagine his shock when everything went belly up
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And that's a wrap on World War One! What part of history do you want to see next?
Anything that has to do with the Crimean War?
Anything you make is great!... but what about something either really niche... or portuguese history eh? eh? *finger guns*
Funny video as always Jack. Maybe you can make a few video's on the pratfalls of some other European Monarchs. Like the English, French, and Spanish Monarchs. I'm sure those video's will be hilarious.
>:D Would you like to learn to play? I know a thing or two about WT...
Maybe you can do some Japanese history? Plenty of figures you could cover.
Fun fact, Rasputin did save Nick’s son’s life. The boy had Hemophilia and was previously being treated with aspirin… a blood thinner… Rasputin took him off the aspirin thus saving his life.
Fun fact: Queen Victoria was a mutant. Not in the X-Men sense where you have superpowers but in the shitty "you got a run of bad luck in the genetic draw" sense. In particular, her mutations resulted in hemophilia when other genes were present, and although she wasn't hemophilic herself, she reigned for most of the 19th century, spreading said mutation across the European aristocracy through marriages of her children and grandchildren.
@@Tetrahedral-Justin That one is pretty fun.
@@Tetrahedral-Justin
Her genes were a sleeper agent for the destruction of autocratic monarchy
If the nymphomaniac wizard was the sanest one in the house it's no wonder it all went to hell
@@Tetrahedral-Justin Queen Victoria was the real evil mastermind behind the horrors of the 20th century. A goddess of destruction perhaps...
*Remember when everyone thought that Anastasia escaped the royal murders, and came up with all those conspiracy theories*
*only to realize that they forgot to look a little to the left in the burial grounds?*
In fairness I think the only reason that theory really gained steam was cause there was a lady in the 20s going around Germany claiming to be Anastasia, and did surprisingly well in convincing former friends of the royal family that she was her. If I remember correctly, it was both Alexei and Maria’s bodies that were buried separately from the rest of the family, and in fact while it’s almost certainly them the Church has yet to inter their bodies with the rest of their family for political reasons? The whole thing is weird.
@@PineappleLiar It wouldn't surprise me if the former friends of the royal family went along with her claims because they thought they could use it as a way to reignite the Russian Civil War and drive out the Bolsheviks.
@@PineappleLiar There were bunch of reasons why everyone thought Anastasia survived. The country was in absolute chaos because they were still in the middle of WWI and the Russian Civil War. The Soviets realized that killing the Tsar was one thing, but his wife and children were a step too far for many. So they claimed they put the children on a train for safekeeping, then lost track of them during the fighting.
Its also more comforting to believe that at least the youngest daughter might have made it out, instead of accepting that she was shot, possibly violated, and mutilated by filthy bolsheviks
I remember as a kid watching the Anastasia movie thinking that maybe she had escaped that horrible night, even if the chance was slim. I was very sad to learn years later that she did not survive and died in that cold basement with her family.
The Russian Fleet's journey from the Baltic to the Pacific really does deserve it's own video. What a doomed expedition.
It's already been done by the TH-camr BlueJay.
Blue Jay did a really funny video on it th-cam.com/video/yzGqp3R4Mx4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=BlueJay
Drach also has an excellent series on it
@@aaronTGP_3756 Long may he live.
Blue Jay is amazing!
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So...fun fact, Nicholas II initially was quite taken with Japan...until one of the guards assigned to him tried to open his head with a sword for what appeared to be no known reason on his tour of Japan. The incident overnight changed Nicholas's fondness of Japan to loathing and paranoia and part of his life's goal from that point became... to quote a certain meme, "I'll never forgive the Japanese!"
None of these facts are fun Russia is legit the opposite of ANYTHING fun...but Thank you for the Factoid I knew he took a trip to Japan with King George (or some such.) George ended up with a wicked dragon tattoo...That sucks it ended it complete disaster and tragedy
@@mediocremaiden8883 Actually it was Nicholas that got the Dragon tattoo. It's darkly humorous that a single event sent millions(if not billions) of people down a dark route mainly because of one person. Kind of like WWI kicking off the way it did. It is the absurdity of it that creates a bitter laughter. We laugh to keep from sobbing as it were.
@grandadmiralzaarin4962 No shit? Well I knew it was either him or his twin-cousin George V. Although I find Tsar Nicholas to have been extraordinarily handsome. 😍 Yes its true. I get down Victorian Style, That way. You guys are not alone in laughing to keep from sobbing we do that everywhere..Russia was and continues to be amazingly beautiful ❤️
@@grandadmiralzaarin4962 Europe in August 1914 was a fuse in search of a match. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand started the war, but it did not cause the war. If it had not been that it would have been something else. Everyone was looking for a reason to start fighting.
Maybe it was a case of wrong identity. Wasn't he with his cousin George? Japan had issues with England. Wouldn't it be crazy If the Russo-Japan war was all a case of mistaken identity
If only Nicholas had held out until 1922 when the earliest tanks in War Thunder would be released. I have it on good authority that he was great at that game.
“They did manage to score a tie with some English fisherman along the way”
that’s a lot of praise for THAT Russian fleet
Possibly the biggest British disappointment at sea
I’m sure if the English men actually tried they would’ve won XD
Those fishermen were armed to the gills with torpedoes, tho.
Fished all morning and through lunch. Whipped the Ruskies in the afternoon. Couldn’t be bothered to follow up, and back in the pub in time for last orders. Just another day in the life of a 1905 North York’s fisherman really. Scarcely warranted a passing remark in the captains log.
I wouldn't call that a draw. The Russians lost the ability to use the Suez Canal in the incident.
We need more PR guy. Did his job fantastically 😂
Ngl, I thought PR Guy was going to be the one to shoot Nicky at the end 😂
@@warlordofbritannia same
Illmatic Hollow so do I he made me laugh so hard
"1000 people are dead!"
Nicholas:" That's bad?"
PR guy:" THAT'S BAD!"
Nicholas:" That's bad."
The moral of the story of PR guy is that there is only so much you can do when you are surrounded by idiots.
He may be aad emperor but what's important is that he got a sick dragon tattoo from Japan.
Nicholas Romanov II
Patriarch of the Romanov Family
He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
I always find this interesting, given how the only time someone asked the Tsarina about whether she fancied Rasputin, her one word response was "Yuck!"
The Emperor of Japan also had a giant mecha suit on his side, so really how could Nikolas think victory was possible? Silly man...
This enraged his father, who punished him severely
"God bless and keep the Czar...far away from us!"
Holy shit Sam Aronow himself. I bow in respect sir... Your videoes om jewish history are amazing...
Guest voice actors in sam aronow videos: "🤓 In the nine-teenth century, exceptional laws, for the jew-ish people, may only be viewed, as an absurd-ity😇"
Jack Rackham as Pope Pius IX: [booming, operatic baritone] "Who ARE you, what POWER do you HAVE????? What AUTHORITY do you have that would FEED such BOASTFULNESS????"
Agreed!
Always keep ahold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.
Nicholas II and his wife actually spent the hours after the stampede praying for the victims; and paid for their funerals. The infamous ball at the French embassy was 4 days later and the imperial couple only attended bc they were convinced it would offend Russia’s major ally but they stayed for 10 minutes. The empress eyes red from crying
Thank you!
Thank you. There's a lot of misinformation here in the comments.
@@nicolasmichiels9972
Whatever they'd done this dreadful incident would have been a very bad omen for the reign but reluctantly attending a ball at the French Embassy compounded the damage.
Aaawww... They made a "thoughts and prayers". Okay then. I guess I have been too hard on poor old autocrat Nicky.
Yeah, that excuses literal serfdom and autocracy and violently punishing any public demonstrations for its reform. Poor old Nicholas
There's a lot to learn about ruling from Nicky. Mostly how not to do it. If his father hadn't died so soon he probably could have shown Nicky a few things to keep the people in line. He wouldn't have been a great ruler but he would definitely not have gone down as one of the most disastrous ones in history. Maybe he could have kicked the can of that to his son or if his son died his brother might have been up for the job, hell they also might have reserved the law of "no female rulers" to let one of the princesses take over, there's just so many what ifs. Russia might also have been another constitutional Monarchy, but one where the monarchy had a little more agency than the British one.
you must be thinking of some other place russia had why to many female rules for this to be true
It all just wild dream. Russian monarchy outlived itself, Romanovs did hold absolute power until last men... Alexander 3 was a deeply reactionary guy, he wasted potential of reforms made by his father and kept aristocracy as leading force in the country, he also failed in foreign policy, making Bulgaria and other Balkan countries angry about Russia...
@@evilwithatwist4184 after Katherine the Great died, her son declared there would be no more female rulers and it was because of his own issues between him and his mother. After that no one bothered to change it.
@@silence_dais But the whole law states the a woman can become the rule upon the extinction of all legitimately-born male dynasty.
Doubtful. Alexander III never planned to make Nicholas anywhere a ruler of some kind because he thought he's one of those dumb mistakes God likes to give out to people at his own perverse amusement hence thinking it's a waste of time trying to teach him stuff about being a Tsar. He favors his older son who died shortly before him. This is the reason I am not fond of monarchies as a form of government: we're stuck in a genetic lottery where the next draw happens roughly every 50 years...
"Knock knock, World-War-o'clock"
Best quote about World War 1 I've ever seen.
Yep.
8:19 As someone who's worked in public relations... *holy shit* I'd hate to be Nicholas II's PR guy.
I would hate to be his pr guy I'd be hooked on booze and cigarettes
@@kyleshiflet9952
It's amusing to read all the PR from 1913 (the Romanov tercentenary).
Lots of gullible journalists bought the story that after all the unpleasantness in 1905 things were really looking up.and Tzarism could look forward to a prosperous future.
Honestly RASPUTIN deserves his own video. Quite a fascinating story and lots of funny side anecdotes
Ah poor Nicholas II, good husband, loving father, beyond shitty Tsar
Same thing with Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Nice people, good parents, just not ruling material.
I mean you can think what you want about the Tsar himself, but the murder of his daughters and young son is just sad
Sad, but that’s how politics is, and especially was at the time
the bolshevik's finest moment (because it somehow got worse from then on)
@@hermit2639 man we hate when women get an education and an economic backwater becomes the second largest economic power on earth
Noctem
If the cost is what happened to Russia, then yeah, F those things
@@corneliuscapitalinus845 a fraction of what was done all over the third world with far better results
We all need a family wizard.
Side note: Alexander II also spurred industrialization in Russia, including the construction of the first railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1842-51. The history of Russia's railway development was weird; some of it was built by the state, some by state-sanctioned private industry.
Which was how in 1888 Alexander III found himself returning from the Crimea (modern-day Ukraine) to St. Petersburg on the privately owned Kursk-Kharkov-Azov Railway. The railway's director, Sergei Witte, had warned that the royal train in its entirety was too heavy, traveling too fast, and shouldn't be pulled by two locomotives, but the royal train's organizers ignored the warnings. Outside the village of Borki on Oct. 29, 1888, one of the iron rails split and the train derailed at high speed. According to the official report and Witte's memoirs, the imperial family was having breakfast in the dining car when the train derailed and despite his injuries Alexander used his bear-like strength to hold up the roof of the shattered carriage long enough for his family to escape. 21 people were killed in the wreck with another 35 injured. Some scholars have speculated that Alexander's death may have been in part cause by lingering internal injuries he sustained during the train wreck. Sergei Witte, while criticized by some in the royal court for running a substandard railway, was appointed as Director of State Railways and saddled with the task of building the Trans-Siberian Railway on a practically shoestring budget. He would go on to briefly hold office as Prime Minister in one of the 6-month periods when Nicholas II thought parliamentary rule might be worth a try.
P.S. Dear gods, yes! Please, supplementary video on the Voyage of the Damned, the Russian Baltic, er, Second Pacific Squadron! One of the most darkly hilarious "What The Actual Fuck" stories of history.
You confused dates. First railoroad was built under Nicholas1, who ruled until 1854.
> Crimea (modern-day Ukraine)
why did you have to start it
@@pc_suffering6941 Because if I didn't, someone else would.
"House of special purpose"
That's actually worse than just calling it the execution house
Just like the term "special military operation", some things never change
Well that was actually just a bad code name. The Bolshevieks were trying to keep the location of the royal family a secret because they wanted to use them as a negotiating chip. However the city they were being kept in looked like it was about to be surrounded so the local commander decided to execute them. Ironically an order had actually been sent to note execute them under any circumstances but it arrived a few hours too late. After it happened the Bolshevieks then had to make it look like it was their idea the whole time.
There are very clear reasons why Alexander II supported Finnish nationalism.
First of all Finns had been part of Sweden from around 11th to 12th century till 1809. So Finns very much thought that they were part of Sweden and not their own country or part of Russia. So by fuelling Finnish nationalism and the idea of Finland he managed to separate us Finns from the Swedish and make us stop moaning about returning to the Swedish crown.
Second reason was carrot and stick policy. Polish had rebelled under his reign and he really punished the Poles for the rebellion. Us Finns were loyal subjects and he wanted to reward us as an example to all of what happens if you are good boys.
Hopefully this helped and you still see this Jack Rackam.
The poor Finns suffered a good deal in The Crimean War when the Brits sunk a great many of their ships.
I’m honestly really conflicted on good old Nicky. On one hand he genuinely seemed like a guy who just really had no business running a country and had enough quirks to make him helplessly likable…but at the same time his authoritarian BS really works in the opposite direction on that. But ultimately I think everyone can agree that he and his family definitely didn’t deserve what they did get in the end.
I agree he didn’t deserve to die.
But also the millions of Russians who died in WW1 probably didn’t deserve to die either.
Basically, his murder is sad, but not surprising considering his actions, tho yeah his entire family was 100% uncalled for.
He did. His family didn't.
Conflicted? He was a piece of sht. The only thing wrong with his demise is that it took too long.
Not to mention he was a racist and called the Japanese yellow rats, then lost the Russo Japanese war to the Japanese
He was the least capable man forcthe job. Lazy to the extreme, weak-minded, massively corrupt, and indecissive to the point other european politics were fed up of his constant opinion switching (proven by the fact none of them gave a shit about his deal with the japanese, and not only because imperialistic rivalries like GB.
Killing the family was uncalled for, but at that point, pretty much everyone in Russia wanted the Romanovs gone for good, and were willing to make anything no matter how sick just to make sure of that.
Sloppy is an understatement when it comes to the muder of the Tsars family. They did some monstrous stuff to that family that night
They got shot just like the many they ordered to be shot. Well deserved.
Good
@@chemicaleye5959 Oooff Commie alert.
@@chemicaleye5959 why is that good? That's disgusting they killed a ill teenager and stabbed young women to death for Pete's sakes
@@chemicaleye5959 most moral commie
I’m honestly interested in what his son would have been like as tsar. From what I’ve read he actually seemed to have had the early makings of a good ruler
No such thing as a good Dictator.
It is an interesting concept to think about indeed since Nicholas was actually determined to not repeat the same mistakes his father had with him, and involved Alexei in a lot of his meetings, especially during WWI but by that time, it was too little too late.
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7 It's not true that none exist, but they aren't exactly common.
Nicholas was just surrounded by shitty people though he can transition into a constitutional monarchy and be done with it
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7Modernist cope
nicholas II was well-known to be one of the best war thunder players in the world in 1917, which is why it's surprising he didn't see total soviet dominion coming
A very good overview of one of the great disastrous rulers of history. Nicholas II was one of those who had the absolute worst instincts for ruling and it showed from start to finish.
Charles I did better, heck Louis XVI at least had a chance at sticking around as a constitutional monarch
At least he was consistent.
@@zhouwu He wasn't even that, he would often flip flop based on whoever had his ear at the moment.
Tsar Nicholas II is definitely one of history’s greatest disappointments. He had everything to be one of Russia’s greatest rulers and was a loving family man, and he blew it with one stupid decision after another
Tsar Nicholas II was history’s greatest disappointment since my son…
Ouch.
He was handed an unwieldy empire that he was expected to rule entirely on his own with training in how to do it. Its hardly a surprise that ended poorly.
@@danz1182 But that's the thing, he wasn't expected to do it all on his own, there were many capable advisors at his side that wanted to reform Russia and a huge group of patriotic liberals who wanted to take up roles in local government and help the empire. But he was so convinced that he absolutely had to be the sole absolute ruler and an unquestioned patriarch that he blew it all, like he genuinely believed in the idea of divine right a century after the French Revolution had consigned that doctrine to the dustbin of history. He often tried to micromanage things for absolutely no reason but at the same time was completely incapable of understanding the realities of a large government. Occasionally he would let a reformer have some control and they'd actually improve things and modernize the economy but then he'd make some kind of abrupt switch. His consistent refusal to liberalize would be his ultimate undoing because it slowly radicalized the Marxist left wing who initially had been fine just supporting liberals until Russia had been fully industrialized but came to believe that it was necessary to take power themselves because Russia would never liberalize or industrialize and everyone was starving or dying in the war.
Read so many books about Nicholas II he's so interesting
Interesting is certainly a word. I feel before that I might say ineffectual, or myopic, or foolish, or incompetent, or elitist, or dumb, or ill-prepared, or stupid, or bufoonish, or useless, or idiotic, or largely worthless
I found it simply fascinating the way he dug his own grave
@@hillbillypowpow you perfectly described most democraps!
It's interesting in how such an inflexible autocrat made every wrong decision imaginable causing the collapse of an empire.
He believed his burden was passed *to him* by his familial line and by God. Divine ordinance doesn't just mean God chose you to party.
Its hard for us moderns to wrap our heads around but to him that would have been like Christ choosing not to carry the cross or something.
He felt that it was his burden to live up to as best as he was able. Not a value judgement on that system obviously but one needs to understand that to understand him.
This came out right on time.
Her Imperial Highness, Angela Landsbury (the voice of the dowager empress in Anastasia and Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast) died not too long before this video came out.
She truly was a treasure
I recently listened to a podcast that detailed some of the failed efforts made to get the Czar and his family into exile and safety in England, and it's heartbreaking to think of. So many European royals were related at that point, and they were a close family. Many years earlier, Queen Victoria had opposed the match between her favourite granddaughter and Nicholas specifically because Russia was a dangerous and poorly run country. But once worse came to worse, Queen Victoria was long dead, it was considered politically untenable in England to offer them sanctuary, and the Romanovs were left to their fate.
All good an all, but considering this assholes kiled 14 million people by a family land feud i think they all deserved what they got
I dont get why people like you have such sympathies for royals when they would not have the same for you.
The first world war was basically a family feud between cousins who could have easily sat down and talked it out.
But nope they forced millions of people to fight and die for something that was beyond pointless.
Their actions lead to their own down fall at least in the case of the czar and Kaiser.
The Kaiser basically getting shafted by the weimar and the Nazis.
The czar well the video explained what happened to him.
The British king was the only one who got off Scott free and his parasitic bloodline still rules Britain to this day.
Royalty is a outdated concept that really needs to be deleted as a concept.
In the past they had reasons to exist now they are just the biggest welfare queens and kings on earth.
They need to get off their butts and work like everyone else.
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 same here.
@@ludovicusbathory1715 Please kindly get off your high horse, and stuff the history lesson as you're not telling me anything that I don't already know. As a grown ass woman with a mind of my own, I'm allowed to express my sympathies however I like.
This post is much too generous to Nicky's Brit doppleganger who callously left his cousin to the mercy of the Bolsheviks.
This is my new favourite Jack Rackham video, just for Rasputins introduction during the photoshoot
It will never make sense to me how to Nicholas didn't want to be Czar and knew full well he was unqualified. Yet fought against any reforms that would've eroded even a little of his absolute power.
He was a very mercurial man, actually liberalish in temperament but very prone to falling out with his advisors, and therefore ignoring their often-progressive advice. Also the Tsarina, who he was putty in the hands of, was a fairly staunch conservative, so that didn't help much, either.
@@lewisirwin5363 he was liberalish except for when he fought to limit the power of the duma and any institution that wouldn't be directly told by him, and that whole Russification thing
@@isaac3140 Exactly
He believed he was special. There was an arrogance in that.
You can’t stay in power through populist appeasement when the organizational integrity of your entire nation is in disarray.
IIRC his brother declined the throne until a constitution could be drawn up to the benefit of the people, and a western style constitutional monarchy established (likely for PR reasons), but they couldn’t do that until he took the throne so he just turned it down all together.
And they killed him anyway.
Close. The Tsar’s brother, Michael, never declined or renounced the throne. He simply issued a statement deferring his acceptance of it until a constitutional assembly could be convened to determine Russia’s future form of government. That was his position, in its entirety
"The last Tsar"
*sad Boris I of Bulgaria noises*
Nice try, but our "last Tsar" is still alive. Simeon II, son of Boris III. He was prime minister for a time as well :D
@@doomdrake123 but he never took the throne, right?
@@londegel He ruled through regency council. I don't know if he was officially enthroned but we reard him as the last Tsar.
There are Romanovs left whose ancestors escaped from Russia. Distant cousins.
Casually deflecting the firing squad's bullets with jewellery sounds quite badass, though. One of the daughters should have become empress.
They don't want another Catherine the Great situation...
I mean her dad grand dad and great grand dad were pretty bad leaders. Chances are she would have been either a average leader or a bad one as well.
Also alexi was the heir so yeah.
@@ludovicusbathory1715 I think it's more that the Bolshevieks weren't about to install a monarch after just having two revolutions.
I hope that Gorbachev gets a video soon.
Okay just seeing the notification, and then who the biography is about, I couldn't help but laugh and rub my hands together knowing how fun this would be 😂😂
Nicholas II is the type of guy that trips up on every step of the stairs haha
A real stumblefuck
I love when you upload longer videos and the sidebar remarks while doing do make history even more interesting than when I was watching the history channel as a child. Keep it up!!
Before the official modern Russia started to heavily police their history, Nikolai II had a very characteristic nickname which can be the best translated to "Doormat Czar". Whether it's a fair nickname is a complicated question to be simply answered in a TH-cam comment, but just so you know his lingering reputation.
If we leave the anti - semitism aside he seems a decent enough person and certainly didn't deserve his horrible fate.
@@alanpennieNicholas was actually quite apathetic in his anti-Semitism. That doesn’t make it better but what I mean is he perceived to be a decent outlet for public anger and little else. The imperial government and the church (at the government’s direction) also did make public condemnations of pogroms during Nicholas’s reign, so that’s something
Funny story, in a move that must have been intended entirely as a show of spite against the Soviets, Nicky was made a Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
And his family, and their servants that died alongside them.
Gotta flex that they the Church outlasted those godless Commies and their state-sponsored atheism office...
Plot twist Stalingrad is back apparently so yeah russia is acting really odd right now.
Well it's more some really weird historical revisionism/denialism since literally everyone eventually came to hate Nicholas. Even his close family thought he was a nuisance. No one was really saddened by his death.
@@ludovicusbathory1715 Russia is always acting odd. It must be something in the water.
"And what a fuss the English are making. It was perfectly natural for your Captain to mistake those English fishing boats for Japanese gunships" said Willykins.
Dear old Wilhelm. Another aristocratic failure.
"To the Ballroomobile" Tsar Nicolas II
Nicholas was just on an "end the monarchy" speed run
Ohhhh I’ve been waiting for this one. I’ve read Nicholas II’s journals so I already know how incompetent he was
7:32: Here’s the crazy part in this story: Both Franz Ferdinand AND his assassin were against annexing Serbia!
Thank you for keeping his story going.
Just what I needed today, thank you, Jack, for having pristine timing. ❤🔥
“I wanted to watch” holy crap PR guy
The PR guy is actually just Sergei Witte
Read lots of books on this guy to get different perspectives but even apologists admit dude was just a waste(of Russia's future).. but his crazy wife did say one smart thing; "Russia loves the feel of the whip!"
Amazing!! These videos keep getting better!
Man its been ages since I caught one of your videos. Glad I had!
Lost it at "brave brave brave brave sir robinnnnnn" LOL Excellent Holy Grail ref
i dont care if they kill the tsar and his wife but should have left the children alone
300 years of hereditary brutal rule and mismanagement will legitimise children/future heirs as a valid political target.
Also the Bolsheviks targeted any member of the Romanov family. They even murdered a member who'd resigned royal life to become a nun. The only members of the family that are alive today are those that fled at the first sign of trouble.
The Russian Revolution was exceedingly brutal but given the way that family had lorded over the place, it's understandable why.
Nah, you can’t have direct claimants to the throne, sometimes you just got to do what you got to do
Communists believe killing everyone is equal
@@chemicaleye5959 they didn't kill the kids of the Habsburgs, Bonapartists, Bourbons, Savoys etc and none of those monarchies exist anymore. Heck, even the Chinese Communist party kept the child emperor alone
@@chemicaleye5959 that's just bs.
Now that we have Nick, Willy and Franz episodes I wonder if Jack will make an episode about George V, because this guy was so boring that even his biographer called him tedious.
He had his moments, he had some style...
George V said about himself, "I am a very ordinary person".
You have to do Aisin-Gioro Puyi next! It’s a story a lot of people don’t know and I think would enjoy
Oh yes the Manchu boy emperor who never really had power and was just a puppet of the Japanese. Towards the end of his life he was made to become a groundskeeper and paraded the round by the Communists as a form of humiliation. This fate was worse than death for Puyi
@@nickmoser7785 Really? Puyi was treated quite well by the PRC compared to other royals in communist countries; he even got into a better marriage than compared to his former apathetic one. The PRC even protected Puyi from the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
@@d0cteroof308 I heard that Mao basically kept Puyi around and made them at groundskeeper as a way to humiliate them. But I'm not too sure
@@nickmoser7785 Maybe, but Mao's intentions were more likely of, "Chinese communism is better than Russian communism because our monarchs have turned communist and are alive".
@@d0cteroof308I mean it helped that Puyi never had any children and his wife died in custody in a pool of her own fluids due to severe withdrawal from opiates
Viserys Targaeryen in the ongoing show House of the Dragon has a lot in common with Nicholas II
Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. He really was a stubborn ass.
I mean giving them the benefit of the doubt the family did want to stay in and pray for all the people that died during the stampede but they were told not too which in the long run was not a great decision😬
Thanks for the video !!! Learnt so much
7:25 "Knock Knock its world war O'clock". I real hope that's not how the future version of Jack Rackam is going to describe what's going on now
I lost my shit when Rasputin showed up
"He's the family wizard!"
Hey, those Fishermen had VERY sharp harpoons!
We dont want to buy your Mobile-Tier game.
Jacks really on a “monarch’s kicked out in ww1,” kick lately,
Maybe Ferdinand of Bulgaria next?
I will say you do the best sponsorship promos and you're the only I don't skip the promotion
"The whole operation was sloppy both literally and metaphorically"
And people wonder why I fear soldiers when they smile at me 😬😑😐
"He looks like he hasn't showered since the time of troubles..."
Is the best quote ever
Wow. I just remembered “belly up” does refer to fish. I remembered a thing today.
You know when you order the Army to put down the protesters, and they tell you I'm sorry sir we're too busy lighting government buildings on fire. You officially failed as an autocrat.
Damn.... and here I thought Charles I of England was an incompetent ruler.
What a coinkeydink that I get a notification of this upload right when I’m listening to Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast on the Russian Revolution.
I had covid and listened to it straight through basically for the full 52 hours continuously
Huge mistake 10/10
So sad this documentary forget the giant tricycle tank Tsar Nicolas built to win WW1 which got stuck in the mud on its first test and was too heavy to recover.
Idk how but the PR guy is probably the heaviest drinker of them all
He shouldn't have been so shocked, the two revolutions were a long time coming!
had to double check the 🐉tattoo, is so ludicrous I can't thnk of it a trolling .but really wanted it to be true and it is!
now this is called quality content
Mr. Rackham,
Dear greatest of Sirs! I truly convey to you and your fine craft of opulent artistry, that your commercialize endowments are the only specticals i consume with thy eyes, ears and mind.
Bravo greatest of Sirs, Bravo!
-Thor
Nicholas I: Dude, I was a freakin' monster and you didn't say anything about me... the deception.
That guy is fucking Orthodox saint nowadays.
@@alexzero3736 So is Olga of Kiev... and she wasn't the nicest gal to invite to your wedding.
Maximilian of Mexico when?
Very smooth War Thunder transition! 👌 😎
God i love your ad transitions.
Jack, you are the Spanish Inquisition of Ad Breaks.
Are you going to do Alfonso XIII and the First Spanish Republic? Does he count if the Borbons came back at the end?
I liked the video, but truth is that Rasputin get a really worst reputation than he deserves.
He was strange, a womanizer and a drunkard (as the average russian), but he also was a devout who travelled the world by foot and was sincerely invested in the people of Russia, more than the Tsar itself. He adviced the Tsar against going the war all together and to focus on improving the well being of Russia people, and the Romanov family, mainly the mother and children, actually liked his company.
I like the History of the World Part 1 reference.
Shoutout to that Monty Python's minstrel song reference. Brave, brave Sir Robin
Im on my 4th watch and only now I get the "the people are revolting" line
Dude, so good
We need you in history classes.
The one thing I can commend the man on is his appreciation for traditional Russian fashion, art and architecture over baroque
Tetris theme song is a nice touch,
Well this video suddenly became very freaking topical
Tsar Nicholas II was a foolish Tsar. The man was woefully incompetent.🤦♂️
I find it interesting that it's easy to relate to him even though he was royalty and lived in opulent wealth. Like, he obviously dug his own grave, but he did try his best, even though his best was not that good.
He tried far from his best, he barely cared when anyone who was not his family was starving.
That’s scary what the ghost of Nicholas II says 😰
That War Thunder insert worked perfectly.
Oh, well it's about time Catherine II got a mention!