Tsardom of Russia

The Tsardom of Russia was once known as the mighty Russian Empire, the largest Land Empire in the world until it lost World War I, suffered a Communist Revolution and ended up being shrunk down to only having the Historical Ingria region. The Tsardom is ruled by Nicolas II as Tsar of Russia who rules as a constitutional monarch.

## History

### Origin

Russia entered the Weltkrieg to protect its ally, Serbia, from Austro-Hungarian annexation in 1914 and subsequently fought a war across three fronts while isolated from its allies in the Entente for three years. Neither the people nor the Tsar wanted any sort of war, but both also felt that the only alternative to the intervention was the total domination of Europe by Germany. Although the Imperial Army was far from defeated in 1916, the already existing public distrust of the autocratic regime was deepened by the mounting casualties, war debts, and accusations of corruption and treasonous acts in high places - which would lead to the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Disillusioned by the grinding attrition of war and now facing near-starvation conditions in the cities, 1917 began with massive anti-government and anti-war demonstrations in many of Russia's urban centers. Morale in the army had likewise plummeted in the face of rising casualties and diminishing territory, and desertion had become an epidemic. The final spark was a strike by the workers of the Putilov factory in Petrograd, which soon rapidly escalated into demonstrations that paralyzed the capital. Tsar Nicholas II ultimately relented and abdicated the throne, but only after strong urging from his desperate generals.

### Tsar Nicolas II becomes German Puppet

Tsar Nicolas became a Puppet Ruler of Germany instead of abdicating the throne, Which resulted in the Communist Revolution and the Russian Civil War. The War was over as the Soviets won with White Russians moving to East Siberia or the Tsardom itself.

## Government

The Government of Imperial Russia is a Constitutional Monarchy ruled by the Tsar who governs the Kingdom with a President of the Privy Council who only answers to him and the German Government and has the power to elect a Prime Minister as Head of Government. The Prime Minister is also in charge of the Duma as he reports the people's needs to the President of the Privy Council who then creates laws to benefit the government's master state.

#### **Administration of Imperial Russia**

* **Tsar:** Nicolas II
* **Reichkommissar:** Wilhelm Heye
* **Prime Minister:** Sergey Taboritsky
* **Foreign Minister:** Dmitri Pavlovich
* **Armament Minister:** Anton Scheglov
* **Minister of Defense:** Vladimir Malyshkin
* **Minister of Intelligence:** Igor Troubetzkoy
* **Chief of Staff:** Mikhail Meandrov
* **Chief of Army:** Fyodor Trikhin
* **Chief of Navy:** P. Drozd
* **Chief of Air Force:** S.A. Chernykh
* **Chief of Military Police:** Sergei Kuzmich Bunyachenko

## Military

### Army

The Army has 200 Infantry Divisions and no war machines due to Imperial Russia being a rural country.

## Foreign Relations

* Colonial Relations with the German Empire.
* Great Relations with the Imperial State of France. Tsardom of Serbia, Kingdom of Romania and the Emirate of England.
* Bad Relations with the Kingdom of Sweden, Tsardom of Bulgaria and Soviet Rus.