Tsar Nicholas II of Russia could not control his Empire. Do you agree ?
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yes.....................
Historian Raymond Esthus states:
The contemporary assessments of Nicholas are remarkably uniform. He was described as shy, charming, gentle in disposition, fearful of controversy, indecisive, indulgent to his relatives, and deeply devoted to his family. Aleksandr Mosolov, who headed his Court Chancellery for sixteen years, wrote that Nicholas, though intelligent and well-educated, never adopted a definite, energetic attitude and loathed making a decision in the presence of others. Sergei Witte, who served Nicholas and his father for eleven years as Minister of Finance, commented that the Tsar was a well-intentioned child, but his actions were entirely dependent upon the character of his counselors, most of whom were bad.[191]
Nicholas generally was considered for the most of the 20th century to have been incompetent at the colossal task of ruling the enormous Russian Empire,[192] although the influence of Soviet propaganda on the general opinion on the monarch, which described him as a bloodthirsty tyrant, must be considered. In the present-day Russia historians are more available to give him a much more positive assessment than before, also evaluating his reforms made by the Russian state during his reign and his person.[193] Historian Robert K. Massie provides a typical indictment of his incompetence: