Beginning of the 20th Century Russian Revolution – Mia Isabella Pérez Pacheco Do you know the story of the lost Anastasia Romanov and how it is related to the Russian Revolution? Anastasia, the lost Romanov, supposedly survivor in the massacre of the family Romanov by the Bolsheviks in 17 of July 1918, separated from her family and life at the age of 17 with a defining moment of the Russian Revolution, Is it a truth? or just a myth? The corrupted system drove the Bolsheviks, working class seeking revenge, revolution, and rebellion, to take care of the injustices that were being held against them. Did one of the soldiers save Anastasia? or he was just mesmerized with the duchess and invented everything? Why did the Bolsheviks attack the royal family? Along the 19th century Russia was isolated from the industrialization that was happening in other countries, that's why Russia was considered undeveloped economically, socially, and politically at the beginning of the 20th century. in which means the Russian economy was based in the agriculture and mining in the lands of the elite that was being worked by the peasants gaining little to no salary while the nobles took all the privileges. The tsarist government led Russia in war against Japan in which they were defeated in 1905, provoking riots and strikes all around Russia that were treated with violence. The First World War and Russia's participation was unwanted because people thought militarily imperial Russia was no match for industrialized Germany, but the Provisional Government decided to continue fighting. Furthermore, there was also the unfairness of the tsarist regime (1881- 1917). Autocracy that brought oppression among the low class and discontent of the people with the tsar. The Romanovs being part of the tsarist government and the last royal family, were targeted by the Bolsheviks. On the night of the 16 of July to the 17 of 1918 the Romanovs were slaughtered in Yekaterinburg, by the communist revolutionaries. When the Provisional Government chose to continue fighting, tzar Nicholas left Russia’s capital in 1915 to take
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