"Life is like an adversary, you and I are also pedestrians"
One, Zaifeng, the last regent of the Qing Dynasty.
(Family portrait of Prince Jin Zaifeng-the last royal family photo, taken approximately in the early Republic of China.)
Aixinjueluo Zaifeng (February 12, 1883-February 3, 1951), the father of Emperor Xuantong Puyi, In the Qing Dynasty clan, he served as the regent of Jianguo during the Xuantong period.
In the last three years of the Qing Dynasty (1909-1911), he was the actual ruler of China. In August of the third year of Xuantong (October 1911), the Revolution of 1911 broke out and he was forced to resign from the post of regent and stay behind closed doors. The following year he was forced to agree to the abdication of his son Puyi.
(Zaifeng when he was young.)
In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), he moved to a secluded residence in Tianjin, and then went to the northeast, rejecting the request of the Japanese to persuade him to surrender, and angered his son Puyi to seek refuge in Japan, and then returned to live in Guan. After the liberation, Zaifeng contributed the Royal Mansion to the People's Government for public use. At the beginning of 1951, he was infected with wind and cold due to many years of old illness and died on February 3rd.
(Pu Yi.)
two, the last czar-Nicholas II.
Nicholas II was the last tsar of the Romanov dynasty of Russia and the last emperor of the Russian Empire (reigned from November 1, 1894 to March 15, 1917). At the time of his accession to the throne, the tsarist system had already begun to falter, but his external expansion and internal reforms were not satisfactory.
(Family portrait of the last Tsar.)
In the end of his ruling Russia, the February Revolution and the October Revolution broke out successively. The former overthrew his rule, and the latter ultimately killed his life.
(Prince Nicholas visiting Japan on a rickshaw.)
Nicholas II was a mediocre monarch. He believes that "sovereign power is bestowed by God" and he is only responsible to God.
He doesn't like close contact with his subjects, and he is more jealous of those outstanding, capable, and assertive ministers, because he knows that their wisdom is above him, and he is always worried that someday the ministers will take away his sovereignty. . Because of its mediocre talent,
was unable to save the collapse of the Russian Empire, which eventually led to the tragic fate of his own family.
In the early morning of July 17, 1918, the last Tsar's family (7 people), the doctor Botkin, the chef and two servants, a total of 11 people, were shot dead in the basement of Ignatiyev’s house.
does not have a thousand-year dynasty, only a thousand-year-old family!
At the last moment of the collapse of the dynasty, the destiny of the Zaifeng family was much better than that of the Nicholas II family.
