… In 1905, having received a report on the suppression of the uprising in the Baltic city of Tukums, Nicholas II expressed dissatisfaction with the behavior of the military, who entered into negotiations with the rebels and did not open fire on the city.
Nikolai imposed a resolution: "It was necessary to destroy the whole city."
Sergei Witte writes to the tsar a report that a certain Lieutenant-Commander Otto Richter, during the suppression of workers' protests in the Baltic States, executes at his own discretion, without any trial and persons who do not resist, and Richter's gendarmes poll the peasants without exception, shoot them without trial or investigation, whole villages are being burned out.
Nicholas II writes on the telegram: "Well done."
Richter was promoted in rank and invited to the tsar for breakfast, which was evidence of the sovereign's extreme disposition.
The governor of Vologda reports that in the working districts the strikers are confined in special workers' houses, where they are forced to work off the losses caused by their labor, the tsar puts a note: "Yes, after the rod."
The Far Eastern command reports that anarchist agitators arrived in the army from the center of the country in order to disintegrate it.
Not interested in either the details or the very confirmation of this fact, the tsar orders: "The detainees are to be hanged."
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The governor of Yaroslavl reports that during the suppression of the unrest, the officers of the Phanagoria regiment ordered the soldiers to shoot at the crowd of strikers, there were killed and wounded. Nikolai writes on the report: "Tsarist thanks to the fellows of the Phanagorians."
Under the corporal punishment regulations in force in the empire, the local police chief could whip any peasant at his discretion. For the abolition of the position as shameful, the State Council spoke out. Having received a report on the discussion in the council, Nikolai puts an inscription on it: "When I want, then I will cancel."
On the report of the Ufa governor about the shooting of a workers' demonstration and the death of several dozen people under bullets, Nikolai writes: "It's a pity that it is not enough."
At a personal reception, General Kazbek reports to the tsar that the soldiers of the Vladikavkaz garrison went out into the street with a red banner, but he managed to disrupt the demonstration and take the soldiers to the barracks without bloodshed. As the general later recalled, Nikolai was dissatisfied with his report and instructively said: "You should have had to shoot."
According to Witte's recollections during his report on the situation in the country, the tsar, looking at the Neva, said: "If only we could take all these revolutionaries and drown them in the bay."
In Tomsk, on the direct orders of the governor, the police and the Black Hundreds set fire to a theater in which a rally of the democratic public is taking place, 1000 people are killed. The governor admires the conflagration from the balcony of his house, and Archbishop Macarius, the future Moscow metropolitan, announces his blessing to the arsonists from the cathedral porch. Both the one and the other receive royal gratitude from St. Petersburg.
The head of the punitive expedition, Colonel Riemann, had an order "not to have prisoners and to act ruthlessly." The soldiers started shooting straight from the windows of the moving train.
On the line of the Moscow-Kazan railway in workers' settlements, in factories and factories, 6 companies, under the command of 18 officers, committed atrocities for several days. They killed indiscriminately. Grown men were shot in front of children and mothers, women were shot, and old men were stabbed to death with bayonets.
As a result of the operation Riemann, Nikolai Karlovich was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir …
Remember all this when you hear how Nicholas II is called an innocent martyr and even a saint.
He was a typical medieval monarch, with all its attendant darkness and brutality."
Author: Irina Irinina