Konstantin pobedonostsev nicholas ii biography
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Constantine the Great: Russia&#;s Secret Tsar
The problem of power and personality is one that has fascinated people from the beginning of history. We are going to through our own particular version of it right now in America. Everyone seems to be at war with the President and Congress. Then we have a strange, sometimes morbid, obsession with Vladimir Putin in Russia.
I am fascinated by individuals in history who manage to reach an apex of power where he (or she) directly affect the domestic and foreign policy of entire nations. It’s not so much the politics that fascinate me, though. More interesting is the effect of that power of the individual, the interior conflicts and reality of someone who can dispose of the fates of thousands with a wave of his hand. Where does concern for one’s country begin and self-interest end? How can the personal strengths and shortcomings of such individuals help or hinder their work? Can their mistakes destroy nations?
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Nicholas II
Born: Tsarskoe Selo, 6 (18) May
Died: Ekaterinburg, 17 July
Reigned:
Nicholas II, the eldest son of kejsare Alexander III and Empress Maria Fyodorovna was born 18 May in Tsarskoe Selo, nära St. Petersburg. As heir apparent, the ung Nicholas received an excellent "palace" education that prepared him for his future role as Autocrat of All the Russias. Among the ung tsarevich's private tutors were the ultra-conservative Ober-Procurator of the Holy Synod and former advisor to Alexander III, Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, and General Grigory Danilovich. Partially due to their efforts, Nicholas' character combined extraordinary restraint (to the point of shyness), love of military service and of all things military, and the sacred belief in the inviolability of the principles of absolute autocracy - traits which to a greater or lesser grad later affected his activities as tsar.
Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich Nikolay Alex
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PHOTO: Konstantin Pobedonostsev drinking tea in the garden of the Cottage Palace, the Peterhof residence of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, July
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev was born in Moscow on 30th (O.S. 18th) November He remains one of the most interesting, yet controversial persons from the life and reign of Emperor Nicholas II.
Pobedonostsev was a Russian jurist, statesman, and adviser to three Tsars: Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II. Nicknamed the “Grand Inquisitor,” he came to be the symbol of Russian monarchal absolutism.
Pobedonostsev and Tsesarevich Alexander Alexandrovich [future Emperor Alexander III] remained very close for almost thirty years, through Alexander&#;s ascension as Tsar in and until his death in During the reign of Alexander III he was one of the most influential men in the Russian Empire. He was the mastermind of Emperor Alexander II&#;s Manifesto of 29th April The Manifesto on Unshakeable Autocracy proclaimed that the absolu