Who ruled Russia in 1914? How did he manage his empire? Explain.

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Tsar Nicholas II was ruling the Russia during the revolution in 1914. He was an autocrat. Though he created Duma after the revolution, but never cared for it. He was carrying a war against the wishes of the people. He worked under a monk called Rasputin. The Russian empire included area around Moscow. It also included areas around presently Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, parts of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. The Russian Empire extended to the Pacific region and included territory of Central Asia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. As far as social demographics of the empire is concerned, the Russian empire was predominated by the Russian orthodox Christians. Though the Empire also had Catholics., Protestants, Muslims and Buddhist.

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