What was the effect of WW1 on Tsarist Russia?

1915:

War was going very badly in (samsonov and rennenkampf).
St petersburg became petrograd in.
Duma demands progressive bloc.
Prince Lvov:
- From a landowning family.
- A hard working liberal.
- Wanted a constitutional monarchy.
- Sat in the first two dumas as a kadet.
- Risen through the zemstvo.
- Was respected for his work to alleviate the famine of the 1890s.
- Became a leader of Zemgor.
Wages running at 200%??
Workers are very hungry.
Cities are very poor.
Peasants were lowest in line to receive the food (that they farmed) and so they began hiding some of the crops to feed their families.
Nicholas II made himself Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Problem? He is now held responsible/to blame for any mistakes that will happen, he is inexperienced in the leadership field.
Mogilev.
War Industries Committee.

1916:

There were three different chief ministers. Complete instability.
Three different interior ministers.
Alexander Protopopov (6 September 1916 – 28 February 1917).
It seems like Nicholas II’s wife Alexandra is in charge and the people didn’t like that. Every time something goes wrong they blame her because she is of German nationality.
Rasputin:
- Born in siberia.
- (Apparently) as a child he was shown to have powers.
- He had a brother and a sister who both died when he was at a young age.
- Was perhaps a khlysty monk but not confirmed. It was a belief…

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