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The Russian Orthodox Church was dominant during Tsarist Russia. It was virtually the state religion of Russia. Many inhabitants of Russia were Muslim, (especially in area near the Ottoman Empire in southern Russia) but the dominant religion was Russian Orthodox.
Tsar Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Imperial Russia. He came to the throne in 1894, his rule was turblent and error laden and in May 1917 he abdicated and bought about the end of over 300 years of Romanov Tsarist rule in Russia. Along with the rest of his family (wife, four daughters and a son) and some servants, he was murdered on July 17 1918 by Bolshivek (communist) revolutionaries as the tsarist forces closed in on the Siberian town where the family was being held captive.
The vast majority of Russia's population neither liked or disliked Lenin, Marksism or communism. They wanted freedom from the Tsarist regime.
Persecution by the Tsarist regime.
It managed to overthrow the Csar and Imperial Russia, but it failed to reach its utopian goals.