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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 6979099, member: 78949"]I understand it was kind of cheating the system and should not have happened. My point is that no matter how unlawful it was, it was at least successful for the country. While in Russia it was not. The reign of Nikolay II was a chain of wrong decisions and miscalculations, although he did not appear to be particularly unfitted for the job, there are worse examples in their history. He was just an ordinary tsar as governing capabilities, and quite special in terms of personal life, I haven't read about any other monarch to be so devoted husband and father. He possessed human virtues that proved unsuited for ruling an empire. And also the bad luck to govern in such tulmultous period of social unrest and a world war. All these contributed to the consequent events.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 6979099, member: 78949"]I understand it was kind of cheating the system and should not have happened. My point is that no matter how unlawful it was, it was at least successful for the country. While in Russia it was not. The reign of Nikolay II was a chain of wrong decisions and miscalculations, although he did not appear to be particularly unfitted for the job, there are worse examples in their history. He was just an ordinary tsar as governing capabilities, and quite special in terms of personal life, I haven't read about any other monarch to be so devoted husband and father. He possessed human virtues that proved unsuited for ruling an empire. And also the bad luck to govern in such tulmultous period of social unrest and a world war. All these contributed to the consequent events.[/QUOTE]
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