– Increased the Russian population by 50 million in 20 years
– Greatly expanded labor rights, did not suppress trade unions, introduced workplace insurance
– He won the First World War
– Established the first peace conference in world history (Hague 1898)
– Public education was made free, primary education made compulsory from 1908
– 10,000 schools were opened every year between 1894 & 1913
– Income tax fluctuated between 3.1% and 5% (7-8 times lower than the British Empire, which controlled many overseas colonies including India, African countries, etc)
– Russia had the highest number of educated (University level) women in the world
– Overall Farmer, peasant & Cossack land ownership skyrocketed from 133 to 261 million hectares
– 100% Of all farmland in Asian Russia (Siberia) was controlled by Russian farmers
– 90% of all farmland in European Russia is controlled by Russian farmers
– The Russian Empire during Nicholas ii’s reign was undoubted the most ‘Christian supremacist’ country in the world:
– Between 1894 & 1917: 10,000 completely new churches & cathedrals were built (more than anywhere in the world)
– 250 new monasteries were constructed
– Between 1881 and 1914, 1.5 million Jews left Russia and went to the United States (left the Russian Empire)
– During his entire reign the Tsar refused to dissolve the ‘Pale of Settlement’, despite enormous pressure from the ‘international community’
– The monetary wealth of the average Russia increased almost threefold, which can be seen in smaller account holdings of Russian banks (Savings increased from 330 million to 1.2 billion rubles between 1894 & 1908)
– The number of horses increased from 26.6 million to 37.5 million (37%) in 19 years
– The number of cattle, goats & sheep increased from 31.6 million to 52 million (52%) in 19 years
– Freemasonry remained completely illegal. All lodge members needed to act in complete secrecy & were at risk
– Pornography was completely illegal
– LGBTQ+ Acts & values were completely illegal
– Prostitution was legal, however heavily controlled. Whores could not legally marry, and would be buried outside of Christian cemeteries (regular funerals not permitted)
– The Orthodox Church worked together with the state to run Family Courts. No alimony, divorce fraud etc.
– It was difficult for non-Christians to get into University (very difficult)
– Capital punishment existed
– Between 1894 and 1917, close to 7,000 criminals were tried and executed (most of them Terrorists)
– Adultery was a crime
– Talmudic Jews could not become academics, law, healthcare or work in any public office
– Legal age of marriage was 18 for men, 16 for women (Actual average age of marriage according to census of 1897 was 21 for women, 24 for men)
– Sharia law was allowed on certain 100% Islamic territories (for Muslims only) except anything related to executions
– Nicholas ii had a dream of turning Palestine into a protectorate of the Russian Empire, allowing free travel for Palestinians across the entire Russian Empire & the same for Russian pilgrims to Palestine (‘visa free’)
– Blue prints for rebuilding Orthodox Constantinople were already prepared by historians & byzantologists (sadly lost during Revolution)
– Plans to canonize many saints were being prepared
– Missionary work & future evangelism projects in China, Iran and Mesopotamia was being conducted
– Tsar Nicholas not being Germanophobic, would never have allowed the ‘Weimar experiment’ to take place
– The Tsar was against any form of ‘parliamentary monarchy’
– The Tsar was planning the restoration of the Patriarchate (he wanted to become the new Patriarch himself)
– Many famous scientists & inventors were born and were educated under his reign
– All the great Soviet inventors, generals, poets & artists went to school in the Russian Empire
– Abortion was a crime
– The Babylonian Talmud was illegal, no printing or translating was allowed
