1. The Road to the Russian Revolution
Death of a Dynasty:
The Road to the Russian Revolution

2. Do-Now
“Let all know that I, devoting all my strength to the welfare of the people, will uphold the principle of autocracy as firmly and as unflinchingly as my late unforgettable father.”
Define autocracy/absolutism-what do you know about this type of rule/government?
What can you infer from this statement about what life under the Czar might have been like?

3. Essential Question:
How did geographic and socioeconomic factors lead to the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov Dynasty?

4. How can “problems” of geography factor into revolutionary attitudes or movements?

5. Social Classes
How might the socioeconomic issues of Russia have factored into the coming civil war/revolution?

6. Photo Analysis
How do these images compare and contrast to one another?
What do they say about Russian life for the different classes?
*Keep the class structure in mind as you view and analyze the photos in the slideshow.

7. The Russian Royal Family

8. The palace

9. Group of poor street children

10. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
City of Cherdyn; 1910

11. Russian troops the field during WW1

12. Peasant girls, Russian Empire 1909
. Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov; 1909 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)
Peasant girls, Russian Empire 1909

13. Settler's family, Settlement of Grafovka; 1905/1915
Mugan, Settler's family, Settlement of Grafovka; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Settler's family, Settlement of Grafovka; 1905/1915

14. Farmstead with a group of peasants, 1905/1915
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Farmstead with a group of peasants, 1905/1915

15. Pre revolution peasants getting water

16. Closing-Exit Ticket
“It’s a hooligan movement, young boys and girls running about and screaming that they have no bread, only to excite- and then the workmen preventing others from work- if it were very cold they would probably stay in doors. But this will all pass and quieted down- if the Duma would only behave itself.”- Alexandra to Nicholas
What does this quote say about Alexandra as a ruler?
What is her attitude/how does she view the protest movements beginning in Russia?