Instead of placing Dimity P at Rasputin's murder, they should have put him on the throne as a fresh start.
This way, maybe he would have had a chance to marry Olga, since OTMA was considered the only good thing dynasty had.
The Romanovs started the Russian Revolution and then just proved the ability to rule was gone from the family.
not only from the family. Whole Russia was unable to rule itself. The provisional Governement was a complete zero and unsertood nothing of what was to do. Lenin seemed to understand, at first ("Land, Peace and Power") but what did he? He gave peace, of course, but at which conditions? If germany had won, it would have taken half of the Russian Empire. He never really gave land - IMHO people in the kholkov were slave as well as they were during tsarism. Free only on the paper, just like after 1861. Power? Oh yes. Stalin had power. But if we consider "power to the people" the way in which the Urals autonomously decided to kill the IF, well, it reallyh a good example.
Anyway. I quote you. The whole family was anable to rule. Nicholas was not prepared to be Emperor, he was not able, and this is known. But none else in the family was. His cousins and uncles shouted, but they were as unable as he was. I really find romanovs GDs incapable and hypocritical people. I really despise them because they were able only to speak, also without reflect. I've always read that the family would have preferred Michail on the throne. Skipping now the fact he had married a divorced woman, had a morganatic son who couldn't have been heir & everyting else: Michail was not able! The Dowager Empr. stated he was better than his eleder brother, but IMHO he wasn't.
Of course Michail was a witty man, but not born to rule as Nicholas wasn't. And when i was reading his abdication manifesto yesterday, I was burning with anger. The whole family wanted you to be tsar instead of your brother, they all stated you were better, and what are you in fact? A coward.
You would say that none would have liked to be tsar in that particular moment of crisis. Of course. But they had MADE A REVOLUTION. If you protest, you MUST be ready to do something ACTIVELY to change things. As BlessOTMA stated, the family wanted to remove Nicholas & AF but they had no idea of what to do. NO IDEA. None of them was able or willingly to do something. They were great at shouting but none was so brave to RULE.
Michail, first of all, was a real COWARD, IMHO. If he didn't want to rule, why did he approve his cousins' and uncles' manifesto? He could have stayed apart from everything.
On the contrary, he behaved like a real coward. None was able to replace an unable tsar.
Sorry for my strong words but this things really makes me angry. I'm deeply sure that if you protest against something, you should be ready to do something else in response.
They didn't - and this is why i despise them. Nicholas was unable to rule and made so many mistakes, but at least he tried to do his best (but he hadn't the capabilities to do). The rest of the family was a group of hypocritical and stupid people, or, at least, they behaved that way.