Power is the ability to influence and control the public, power does not naturally enter the body of some people, and members of the royal family are not natural carriers of power. Nicholas II is a typical example of the opposite. After the start of World War I, he used his power to send more than 15 million people to the battlefield, and there were more than 5 million people in the Tsarist standing army under his orders at that time. Unlike previous tsars, Nicholas II also personally served as commander-in-chief, taking away the actual entire command of the Russian army (the tsar generally appointed professional soldiers to replace him), but the result was that he lost all power within 48 hours and buried the dynasty.
The countdown to the Romanov dynasty began at 5 p.m. on March 11, 1917 (February 26 in the Russian calendar), and the first person to attack was none other than the Pavlov Regiment of the Russian Guards, the soldiers of the 4th company of the regiment began to riot with 30 rifles and more than 100 rounds of ammunition. The commander of the Petersburg garrison, Khabarov, with 55 infantry companies, 23 Cossack cavalry companies and a Guards company, naturally easily quelled the rebellion of this company. When Tsar Nikolai received the news, he thought it was a trivial matter, and he also thought that as the weather turned colder, the masses would immediately return to their homes. At eight o'clock the next morning, the Volynsky Guards Regiment, which was confronting the crowd on the Neva Bridge, turned its guns and shot the colonel of the regiment directly, standing with weapons and the procession.
The rest of the Pavlov regiment quickly responded to the call of the fraternal troops, and then the Lithuanian regiment began to join the line against the tsar. The first guard of Tsarist Russia, the benchmark unit of the Russian army, the Preobrazhensky Guards Regiment, also abandoned Nicholas II, this infantry regiment has always had a keen sense of politics, and in the history of Tsarist Russia, it put three female tsars on the throne. In 1905, the Semenov regiment was still the number one thug of Nicholas II, capturing and killing many people, and seeing that Nicholas II was unreliable, it immediately turned back. With these five Guards regiments taking the lead, more than 66,700 of the 160,000 troops of the Petersburg garrison killed their commanders and sided with the masses.
Nicholas II was not in Petersburg (not in Moscow), but in Mogilev, in present-day Belarus, where the Russian army was the stronghold of wartime, and his Empress Alexandra was in Tsarskoye Village, 25 kilometers from Petersburg. After the incident, Nicholas II was slow to react, and had to take a long detour by train to meet his wife and children in the royal village. On March 13, when the incident entered a critical moment, Nicholas II was on the train and did not issue a clear order to Petersburg and the Russian army.
The second event was that after the union of the masses and the soldiers, the State Duma announced the creation of the soldiers' council, abolishing all class differences in the army. After more than 8 million leaflets were distributed, millions of Russian troops immediately set up soldiers' committees to grasp the actual control of the army, and many soldiers sought revenge on their unpleasant superiors, and the entire Russian army was in chaos. While Nicholas II was watching the Gallic Wars on a train, great changes took place in Petersburg and in Russia as a whole......