The actions of Russian officials have made the country even worse. According to post-mortem statistics, in 1916 the amount of goods lost in Russia amounted to 2.18 million tons, many of which were reported to have been lost due to various accidents.

The biggest losses were when three large oil tankers disappeared from the Black Sea laden with crude oil. At the time, everyone thought that the Ottoman navy had captured them, but a year later there were people who had worked on them and saw similar ships in Romania, but it is not known whether or not they were not.

Romania is making deals with officials on a large scale, so that the people who are already increasingly dissatisfied because of the high price of living materials are finally unwilling to endure. On January 24, 1917, the workers of St. Petersburg could no longer accept this life. About 140,000 male and female workers in 50 factories went on strike and marched to kick off the revolution. The next day, the number of people participating in the strike increased to 200,000.

Mass strikes and demonstrations were also held in Moscow, Kharkiv, Baku and other cities. In his report to the Minister of Internal Affairs, the then chief of the Petrograd police said: "The idea of a general strike is gaining new supporters day by day and is as popular as it was in 1905. ”

At this time, the panicked people appealed to the tsar, hoping that the tsar would let them join the regime. As in history, Nicholas II simply ignored the wishes of the people and threatened to dissolve the State Duma. In order to support the people, the Socialists, who organized the strike, invited the workers to a peaceful demonstration near the Tavrida Palace, the seat of the national parliament, and demanded that the parliament establish a government that would enable "the people to live". This would increase the prestige of the parliament and put pressure on the tsar.

At the same time, there were other voices in the strike. "Down with the tsarist monarchy!" "War against war!" "Long live the Provisional Revolutionary Government!" and other slogans also appeared in the procession, which was one of the roles of the Bolshevik Party in this procession. It was only at the time that the Bolshevik Party's influence on the revolution was very limited, as most of its top leaders were abroad (the slogans were too radical to stay in Russia).

The Bolsheviks, however, made it their great task to win a change in the direction of the army. The Bolsheviks organized workers to go deep into barracks, outposts, patrols and persuade soldiers not to shoot at the people. Because of the chaos in the country and the poor performance in the war, the soldiers gradually lost their loyalty to the Tsar and began to sympathize with the people.

This allowed the Bolshevik Party to develop smoothly in the army, which gradually grew from less than 500 on the 24th to more than 60,000. There are many more soldiers who remain neutral because they are sympathetic to the population.

Seeing a large number of popular uprisings against him in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II's first reaction was to suppress them, as he did in 1905.

Because on January 22, 1905 (January 9 in the Julian calendar), the Orthodox clergy Fr. Gelon led an organization of about 30,000 workers to a peaceful demonstration in the square outside the Winter Palace, with the purpose of submitting a petition to the Tsar to express the plight and oppression of the working class and the people at the bottom of society, asking the Tsar to carry out social reforms and end the Russo-Japanese War, and to hope that there would be no overtime work and reasonable treatment.

However, when confronted by the armed soldiers who were responsible for guarding the palace at that time, they lined up to confront the demonstrators, and the number of people gathered gradually increased to 200,000. The soldiers fired warning shots into the air and soon after opened fire on the crowd, who fled in panic and scrambled to push and shove, and Father Guypong was killed in the chaos. It is estimated that there were about 1,000 casualties. This bloody repression caused public outrage, and the Russian people no longer hoped for the Tsar.

In fact, after the events of 1905, the Russian political parties no longer pursued the Tsar's compromise. And the tsar, now known as Little Daddy, was pitted against the populace, which was also a satire on the Romanov dynasty, which had ruled for more than 300 years.

Tsars, Nicholas II, who was in Tsarskoye at that time, received a report from the commander of the Petrograd Military District, Khabarov, on the situation in the capital, ordered a repressive operation against the strike movement in Petrograd. However, the soldiers' refusal to carry out this order because of their sympathy for the population made Nicholas II's situation worse.

"These traitors, they are betraying the government. When we were fighting against Germany and Austria, they were behind their backs to incite the population to sabotage the war. ”

Nicholas II rebuked the revolutionary groups in the Tsarskoye Village, and the army was terrified by the fact that the army did not listen to him overnight. He never figured out what the situation was like, so that the army did not listen to the orders of the commander-in-chief overnight.

"What should we do?"

Queen Alexandra asked with a sad face as she watched her husband angrily reprimand the political group that started the riot.

Empress Alexandra did not have a good reputation in Russia, not only did she not compare with her predecessors, Catherine, but after the outbreak of the war, there were rumors that the Empress was a German spy. Although this rumor quickly subsided, it can also be seen from here that the Empress's evaluation in Russia is not very good.

Not to mention that when Nicholas II went to the front to supervise the war, the queen cited the demon monk Rasputin as a spiritual sustenance. Let this uneducated Siberian peasant disrupt the operation of the Russian government in the court. It wasn't until a month ago that Yusupov and others from the royalist faction killed this demon monk. Unfortunately, the royalists acted too late, and the discontent of the populace with the government and the tsar reached new heights because they could not survive.

"Now we need to stall for time, and there are troops on the front line who are loyal to me."

After hearing his wife's cry, Nicholas II still thought of sending an army to suppress it after thinking about it repeatedly, which is really a wooden fish head. In fact, this is not because Nicholas II is stupid, but because he has too much revolutionary blood on his hands, whether it comes from his orders or not. Many revolutionaries regarded him as the biggest reactionary leader in Russia, so Nicholas II feared that his life would not be guaranteed if his rights were seized.

However, the Tsar's actions were expected by those who participated in the revolution. Octobister A. I. Guchkov and State Duma deputy V. V. Shurgen, on behalf of the revolutionary groups, went to Tsarskoye and Nicholas II for a showdown. Moreover, these revolutionary groups called for a large number of troops to defect and prevented troops loyal to the Tsar from entering St. Petersburg.

Seeing that he had nothing to do to change all this, Nicholas II abdicated in favor of his younger brother Mikhail on January 31. The next day, Mikhail also announced his abdication. In this way, the Romanov dynasty, which had ruled Russia for 304 years, was washed away by the revolution. The Russian Democratic Revolution was victorious.

From January 24 to 31, the Romanov dynasty collapsed in just eight days, catching the Entente and Central Powers off guard, who were still fighting on the battlefield. However, there were two provisional governments in this revolution, and this will also be a certain variable for the future situation in Russia.