30 th April 2012

1. 30th April 2012 Who were the Tsars? Aim: To describe the problems the Romanov’s had in Russia. Objective: To summarise information and make a decision. Keywords: Tsar, Abdicate, Unpopular, Rasputin. STARTER WHAT can you see? Do these people seem to be liked? Loved? Respected? HOW can you tell?

2. In 1913 Russia celebrated 300 years of Romanov rule. The capital St. Petersburg was full of celebrations, flags lined the streets, important visitors filled the hotels and the people who lived in the city covered statues of the Tsar with ribbons and flowers. How did it all go so wrong??

3. HISTORY MYSTERY • You have one main question to investigate…. • What problems did the Romanov’s have? • By the end of the lesson you should be ready to tackle the most difficult question in our investigation: • Why did the people get angry at the Romanov’s? L4! L5!

4. HISTORY MYSTERY • Each pair has an EVIDENCE SHEET. • You need to go through the sources in your pack and use that information to make notes in your books/fill out your investigation sheet. • You should have 11 bullet points. • You have 20 minutes to do this. • Afterwards you’ll be asked to try and answer yourBIG question; • Why did people get angry at the Romanovs?? EXTENSION! WHICH problem was the biggest for the Romanov’s? WHY do you think this is? JUSTIFY your answer!! 20 MINUTES

5. Success Criteria • Think of an overall reason why the Romanovs got less popular. • Give an example or bit of evidence from the sheet that backs this up. • Explain how they link together and why you think this would have made people get angry. WHY DID PEOPLE GET SO ANGRY AT THE ROMANOVS? Success Criteria Point - The Russian people got angry at the Romanovs because.. Evidence - An example of this is when.. Explanation - This made people angry because.. USEFUL WORDS Angry Betrayed Let Down Jealous Selfish Rich Poor Resentful Because This Meant But However And 15 MINUTES

6. Did the Romanov’s bring it on themselves?? Be ready to EXPLAIN your answer!!! Stand UP for YES. Sit DOWN for NO.

7. Source One On 1 August Tsar Nicholas II declared war on Germany. Russia didn’t do very well. 230,000 soldiers died or were taken prisoner in the first year. Source Two Russia was not ready to fight a war. They only had 4,600,000 guns for 6,500,000 men!. Source Three The railway wasn’t good enough to get fresh food and ammunition to the troops and could not get the injured soldiers back to the cities for treatment Source Four Tsar Nicholas II decided to take control of the army himself and went to join the troops. This did two things: He was now blamed for all the army’s defeats. He was far away from Russia and couldn’t control it properly. Source Five Back in Russia while Tsar Nicholas II was away his wife, Tsarina Alexandra got very close to a Holy man named Rasputin. The Russian people didn’t like her or Rasputin very much at all. Especially as Alexandra was German!

8. Source Six From September 1915 government ministers were replaced very often, mostly when Rasputin wanted them changed. By changing the government all the time it made it very hard to rule Russia properly. Alexandra and Rasputin got more unpopular. Source Seven Petrograd, a big city in Russia, wasn’t getting enough food to feed everybody. They needed 405 railway cars of food to survive but were only getting 116. Source Nine By early 1917 the situation in Petrograd was awful and getting worse everyday. There was not enough food, prices were rising and people didn’t have enough money. The Tsarina Alexandra and Rasputin were even more unpopular! Lots and lots of the working classes (peasants) were VERY unhappy. Source Eight As the war went on more and more people crammed into Petrograd to work in the industrial factories. As more people arrived the food shortages got worse. Source Ten The President, Mikhail Rodzianko, sent Tsar Nicholas II lots of letters telling him to come back as the people were getting very angry but the Tsar didn’t believe him as his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra, was telling him everything was fine. Source Eleven Celebration marches through the city for Women’s day in February 1917 turned into protests against the government and the Tsars. Soldiers sent to stop the protests joined in! The Tsar was forced to step down and give up being Tsar because he had LOST CONTROL! When a Tsar steps down this is called ABDICATING.

9. INVESTIGATION SUMMARY Subject: The Romanovs Focus: Their Problems Problem One: ............................................................................. ..................................................................................................... Problem Two: ............................................................................. ..................................................................................................... Problem Three: .......................................................................... ..................................................................................................... Problem Four: ............................................................................ ..................................................................................................... Problem Five: ............................................................................. ..................................................................................................... Problem Six: ............................................................................... ..................................................................................................... Problem Seven: ........................................................................... ..................................................................................................... Problem Eight: ........................................................................... ..................................................................................................... Problem Nine: ............................................................................ ..................................................................................................... Problem Ten: ............................................................................ ..................................................................................................... Problem Eleven: ......................................................................... .....................................................................................................