Who Betrayed Nicholas II?
AGRBear:
A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes p. 288:
"..it was a question of whether the revolution would start from below or above. The idea of a 'palace coup' had been circulating for some time."
So where do we start? Why not at the top? So who were these conspirators at the top?
Here is one:
p. 288 "Guhkov was at the center of one such conspiracy." It aimed to seize the imperial train en route from Stavka to Tsarskoe Selo and to force the Tsar to abdicae in favor of his son, with the Grand Duke Mikhail, Nicholas's brother, serving as Regents."
Reason given was:
"In this way the conspirtators hoped to forestall the social reovlution by apppointing a new government of confidence."
When:
It was to have been set into motion in March of 1917.
Who was Alexander Ivanovic Guchkov (1862-1936)? Leader of the moderate liberals in Russia between 1905-17. Founder of the Octobrists (q.v.) party and president of the thrid state duma. In WW I , Guchkov was chairman of the duma committee on military and naval affairs.... He was a critic of Nicolas II and was part of the Duma group who went to Pskov to secure the abdication of Niohcolas II. After the Red October Revolution, Guchkov fled to Paris.
There is a section which deals with the Romanov Conpiracies:
http://hydrogen.pallasweb.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=revolution;action=display;num=1102887162
AGRBear
David_Pritchard:
Did anyone really betray the Emperor? Nicholas II was an Autocrat who failed Russia over many years as Sovereign by making repeated bad judgements in most every management area. These many bad choices on the Emperor's behalf include the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, backtracking on the Constitutional Monarchy, participation in WWI and the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917. If anyone was betrayed, it was the Russian people, millions of whom paid for the poor judgement of Nicholas II with their lives.
It is unfortunate that none of the competent Grand Dukes, Vladimir Aleksandrovich for one, could convince him to abdicate or if all else failed, had the forethought to arrange a coup d'etat. It had happened before with problematic or inept Autocrats (Peter II, Peter III and Paul I).
DAP
AGRBear:
David, you asked a very good question, however, there are other threads about Nicholas II and his inability to serve as a strong Tsar. And, it really doesn't matter what you or I think about Nicholas II or other monarchs in this thread. This thread is about "Who betrayed Nicholas II?" while he was the Emperor.
Thank you in advance for respecting this thread as it was intented.
AGRBear
rskkiya:
Who betrayed him?
Well, I think that he did it himself - as Tsar he refused again and again to listen to advice from his councilors, his ministers and from his own relatives regarding his inability to deal with the profound problems of his reign! Maybe he couldn't help himself - maybe only a Peter or a Catherine would have been able to manage such a difficult situation.
Or are you simply looking for a 'scapegoat'?
RomanovFan:
I agree w/ Rskkiya. Nicholas betrayed himself. Most of if not all of his people were living in poverty, barely getting enough to eat while he and his family ate delicacies off China plates. And when the people asked for his help, he ignored them and they were killed (Bloody Sunday).
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