Russia: From the Vikings to the last tsar
A beginner's guide
The path to revolution
Lenin Internet Archive
www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/
Comprehensive Marxist website that contains a biography, photographs and extracts
from Lenin's works.
The Time 100: V I Lenin
www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/lenin.html
Lenin as seen by the right-wing magazine Time, in its compilation of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.
Nicholas II
www.encyclopedia.com/html/N/Nichls2-R1us.asp
Encyclopaedia article on the last Russian tsar.
Alexander Palace time machine: Everyday life in a Romanov palace
www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/
Online tour and history of the home of the last Romanov tsar, Nicholas II,
and his family in Tsarskoe Selo, near St Petersburg. Also contains numerous
articles, chronologies and documents, such as diary extracts – for example,
the diary of Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, chief of the British
Military Mission in Russia, 1914–17.
The path to revolution
www.geographia.com/russia/rushis06.htm
Thoughtful article on the origins of the Russian Revolution.
Bloody Sunday petition
http://artsci.shu.edu/reesp/documents/bloodysunday.htm
Text of the petition co-authored by the priest Georgii Gapon. His attempt to
present this to Nicholas II at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg led to the
massacre that was Bloody Sunday in 1905.
Russian Revolution 1905
www.onwar.com/aced/data/romeo/russia1905.htm
Short article on the relatively unsuccessful revolution that was precipitated
by Bloody Sunday.
The evil monk: The life and times of Gregory Efimovich Rasputin
www.eurohistory.com/Rasputin.html
Long, wordy article on Rasputin that concentrates on how the situation within
the royal family allowed him to become so influential.
Rah, rah, Rasputin
www.historyhouse.com/in_history/rasputin/
Rasputin gets the irreverent History House treatment.
Russian Revolution
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook39.html
Part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, this has masses of
links to articles on the tsarist state, Russian Revolution, Bolshevik rule
to 1924 and Stalinism.
15 March 1917: Abdication of Nicholas II
www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1917/abnick2.html
The text of the abdication signed by Nicholas II, which ended the Romanov rule
of Russia.
The last tsarevich
http://members.aol.com/dangit0/Alexei/alexei.htm
Rather obsessive, if fascinating, website concerned with everything about Alexei,
the haemophiliac heir to Nicholas II. Lots of photographs.
Romanov Family Albums
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/
romanov_album.htm
Complete private photo albums of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, available
for online viewing. Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at
Yale University.
A guide to the 20th century
Channel 4's overview of the last century. Two of the sections
contain video clips from Russian history:
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/
guide20/timeline17.html
In this part of the Timeline (1917), you will find a clip of the Bolsheviks
storming the Winter Palace in November 1917.
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/
guide20/part04d.html
In 'A century of contrasts: A world of empires', there is a clip of Nicholas
II, tsar of all the Russias, filmed in 1894.
