The Last Tsar's War: How WWI Broke the Romanovs

In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna explore how the First World War, not revolutionaries, was the true gravedigger of the Russian Empire. They trace Nicholas II's fatal decision to take personal command of the Stavka in 1915, the catastrophic retreats and refugee crisis, the economic collapse on the home front, and the rising tide of desertion and mutiny that turned the army into a revolutionary powder keg. Along the way, they examine the role of the Progressive Bloc in the Duma, the murder of Grigori Rasputin, and the February Revolution's spark in Petrograd. Drawing on figures like General Aleksei Brusilov, the Brusilov Offensive, and Metropolitan Pitirim, Lucas paints a vivid portrait of a regime that lost the war within, even before it lost the war without. This episode is a must-listen for anyone who wants to understand why the Romanov dynasty, so seemingly secure in 1914, crumbled into dust by 1917.

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