Dmitry Medvedev, Nikolay 2: similarities

The Internet space has long been a convenient field for discussion, condemnation and approval of any, even the most delirious thought or idea. The movement, which has come to taste to the majority of users, spreads with lightning speed, goes beyond the limits of the World Wide Web and continues in real life. This happened, for example, with one of the most popular memes in our country about the similarity of the current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and the last Russian Tsar Nicholas.

Origin of the issue

The whole history of the Romanov family has been covered for a hundred years now with a mystery, and this is why it is even more tempting and interesting for supporters of various conspiracy theories. Immediately after the terrible murder in the house of the Ipatievs in Russia, France and Germany began to appear "miraculously surviving" heirs to the throne. Some of them even managed to gain popularity and became established in life due to scandalous fame.

But reliable evidence of the possibility of saving someone from the royal family is not available, especially since the remains of the emperor, his wife, children and servants were identified by geneticists and buried in all Orthodox canons. But all these facts do not prevent the emergence of new rumors about the surviving heirs of the throne, now related to modern Russia.

Reason for interest

Several years ago, Internet bloggers discovered the amazing similarity between Medvedev and Nicholas 2. There were suggestions of reincarnation or of the royal origin of Dmitry Anatolyevich, as well as many warnings about the special significance of this fact in the history of Russia. The movement received extraordinary popularity among ordinary citizens and journalists, parallels about the similarity of Medvedev - Nicholas 2 began to do whoever is getting.

Such a lively interest did not arise from scratch, and is a consequence not only of mere curiosity, but of one of the measures taken by the opposition forces to demonize the existing power. The reactionaries had a great way to propagandize the "speedy" overthrow of Putin and his regime by comparing one of his leaders with the last Russian emperor who had ruined the great Empire.

Outward similarity

It all began with a comparison of photographs of the two rulers of Russia. Bloggers of the "Live Journal" using a computer program painted Dmitry Medvedev on his beard, which was just blown up the Internet. Closedness of information about the former president, inconsistencies in the fact of birth, questions about parents and his alleged Jewish roots played a role.

Journalists tried to make a detailed comparison of external data and individual characteristics, which had Nicholas 2 and Medvedev. The photo shows the following similarities:

• Physique - both men of medium height, stocky, with a head slightly more than usual sizes;
• The shape of the eyes;
• Facial structure;
• Somewhat unusual shape of the ears.

Some historians notice the same smile and laughter of the leaders. About the level of similarity that Medvedev has, Nicholas 2, you can talk for a long time, it all depends on the individual attitude to these two people. In this matter, the reaction following the publications is of interest. The society exploded from dozens of assumptions about what caused such similarity.

Biographical Parallels

Internet users went beyond simply comparing external data and tried to find common features in the life and work of Medvedev and Nicholas 2. Both rulers received a good education, the main direction of which is jurisprudence. According to the teachers and other witnesses, the future emperor was not very diligent and excellent grades, although his teachers were some of the most famous scientists of those years, N. Beketov and N. N. Obruchev.

Dmitry Anatolyevich graduated from the Leningrad State University. AA Zhdanov and, according to his fellow students, did not stand out either in studies or in public life. His institute friend Nikolai Korpachev, who later became the rector of St. Petersburg State University, noted the zeal and perseverance of a young energetic person.

But all these traits are highly likely to be attributed to millions of young men of different countries and times. It is difficult to compare the path of the heir to the Russian throne, raised from childhood with the certainty that he is the anointed of God, and a man from the ordinary Soviet family, whose parents wanted for the only son of a good education and a successful career.

Characteristics of the last Russian emperor

If there is a certain amount of confidence in the comparison of photographs that Nicholas 2 is similar to Medvedev, then the comparison of characters can be made only approximately. The basis can serve as memoirs of contemporaries about the last emperor of Russia, as well as interviews, journalistic assumptions and observations about the addictions and outlook of Dmitry Anatolyevich.

The publicity of a person obliges to behave the way society expects it from him, but even a thoughtful image is not always strong and falls due to small but significant actions or facts. Everyone knows that Nicholas 2 is usually called a weak and weak-willed manager. In favor of this are the events that occurred during his reign, which did not escape the eyes of the people and put the emperor in a bad light.

Evaluation of the emperor as the leader of the country

The crush at the coronation, the dispersal of the peaceful demonstration in 1905, the admission of the Civil War, the mass arrests - all this affirmed for Nicholas 2 the nickname Bloody. But Ivan the Terrible and Peter I were also not famous for their peaceful actions, this was not the outrage of the population, but the weakness of Nicholas as leader.

According to Russia, rumors of a great influence on the emperor, then Grigory Rasputin, then Stolypin and other charismatic personalities. And Nicholas 2 himself was somewhat away from the tasks assigned to him.

Characteristics of the Prime Minister of Russia

Medvedev is similar to Nicholas 2 just this popular impression of the nomination of governing the country. Since his appearance on the political slope, the oppositionists, journalists, and simply opponents of the system saw in his figure only another way of V. Putin to prevent the leadership of a stranger from toppling and leave power in the same hands.

Like Nicholas 2, the popular rumor directed Medvedev to weakness of character and approval of not his own initiatives, but those that he was ordered to promote. The Russian presidential duet is often compared with the manifestation of a monarchy, where democracy can not be, and the similarity of the two rulers found only warmed up this opinion.

Issues of morality

The image of the country's leader should always be, if not ideal in everything, then always strive for perfection. People like to think that above him is a trustworthy and highly moral person, even if this is only an appearance. Therefore, the issue of the morals of the rulers has always been given much attention.

The similarity between Medvedev and Nicholas 2 in matters of morality is unequivocally difficult to assess and almost impossible. On the last Russian emperor, there were two directly opposite opinions. One ordered him to serve Christian ideals, the image of an ideal husband and father, and the other, created primarily for denigrating the king, spoke of his pride and unwillingness to listen to the common people. This duality is reflected in many studies devoted to Nicholas, 2 most considered him to be a good and gentle person, but a weak and short-sighted ruler.

As for Medvedev, it's even more difficult to judge here, since we only have to evaluate the media picture, and there are almost no honest reviews of close people about him, there is no direct information about the politician's personal life, which, perhaps, could clarify the situation. In the camp of the opposition there is an opinion about the bias of Dmitry Anatolyevich to the representatives of the elected people, help the Jews in approving their positions in Russia. And even Medvedev himself, if they do not consider him a descendant of the Romanovs, they certainly are among the Jews.

Results of the Board

Almost a hundred years separates the time when Medvedev and Nicholas were in power, 2 epochal changes in life, culture, technological progress and politics are between these two people. But those who want to become famous or approve their own delusional ideas still try to draw parallels between what is happening in Russia, the imperial and the modern.

Thus, the Russian poet Yevgeny Gusev drew several facts that unite the results of the reign of two rulers. True, many of the following are statements by the reactionary and the opponent of the current authorities, so that the analogy between Medvedev and Nicholas 2 may seem unnecessarily contrived:

• Both were leaders of one country;
• There is an increased filling of prisons, especially by people dissatisfied with the regime;
• State values flow abroad;
• In the army, degradation and mass reductions;
• Nicholas 2 after the Russian-Japanese war was forced to give up a significant territory in the east of the country, and Medvedev "presented" Norway with a train in the Barents Sea;
• Both under the tsar and under the president, social policy failed in terms of combating drunkenness and drug addiction;
• Both coins issued coins worth 10 rubles, and on the sample in 2011 (Nikolaev money came into use in 1911), the double-headed eagle of the interim government was depicted;
• Both leaders did not have the support of the masses, and in some cases their actions provoked discontent or laughter.

The opinion of the opposition poet seems very far-fetched and unnatural, but to a greater or lesser extent it reflects the real opinion of the society about the two Russian leaders.

Attitude of the masses to the last emperor

As already mentioned, Nicholas 2 and Dmitry Medvedev did not have the proper authority among ordinary people. Everyone knows the story of the day of the coronation of the last Russian emperor, when more than a thousand people died because of the unorganized actions of the authorities on the Khodynka field. This event was immediately accepted by the people as a formidable sign of Russia's future troubles and did not add authority to the young monarch.

Moreover, at that time revolutionary moods were already in sight in almost every city in the country, so we can say that Nicholas 2 came to power not at the right time. Underground agitators tried in every possible way to portray the emperor as a weak, proud and stupid ruler who does not care about the needs of the people. So, by the beginning of the First World War, the level of trust in the tsar and in the monarchy in general had fallen considerably.

Opinion of the public about Medvedev

The conditions under which Dmitry Anatolyevich came to power repeat the history of Romanov only in part. Medvedev was not perceived as a full-fledged leader, although propaganda tried in every possible way to separate him from Putin and set him up as an independent politician. The Russians were not just dissatisfied with Medvedev's candidacy, some of the population did not have any interest in what was happening in the political arena, and the other considered him a "continuation" of Putin and therefore saw no special changes.

For all, it was obvious who remained the leader in the country, so most of the population limited themselves to jokes and caustic remarks. But the opposition became more active, then the first "shocking" revelations of the origin of the newly elected president appeared. It should be noted that the frivolous attitude towards Medvedev was preserved even after the completion of his authority as the head of the country. Everyone cited his unsuccessful comments, discussed clothes, flaws in behavior - especially the case with a strong sleep during the opening of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. So for fans of the cyclical history of "people's dislike" - another reason to understand how similar and different Dmitry Medvedev and Nikolai 2.

The hypothesis of reincarnation

One of the most delusional, and from the merry assumptions about why two rulers are similar, is the idea of the transmigration of souls. It would be very funny, if you do not take into account that almost a quarter of the population of Russia believes in such nonsense, potential viewers of the Battle of Psychics.

Nicholas 2 and Medvedev, whose similarities are striking, but not surprising, in some online publications are almost like the embodiment of the spirit of evil, which is laid upon our country to destroy it. It remains only to hope that such an assumption is only part of a joke or a cheerful banter.

Assumptions about the origin of Medvedev

Much more serious roots have another idea, explaining the similarity between Medvedev and Nicholas 2. The photo of the two rulers made some experts in history suggest that the current prime minister is a descendant of the imperial family. And here, people who are eager to find out the hidden truth, even where it was not even there, somewhat overdid it with hypotheses.

The theory of the falsely executed execution of the tsar's family, which was adjusted by the very same Soviet authorities, and "reliable" facts about the rescue of the prince Alexei, and much more information, by no one and not confirmed by anything. In this vein, Medvedev was called the great-grandson of Nicholas 2, then a relative of one of his executioners. The official biography of the current prime minister is considered to be unreliable, and all relatives are fictitious.

Whatever the truth, it is impossible to ignore the obvious, the two rulers of Russia are really very similar in appearance, and if desired, one can also find parallels in the character, outlook and other characteristics. It's another matter how to treat all this, whether to build conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theory or to look at this fact with humor and surprise. Be that as it may, the photos of Medvedev and Nicholas 2 will continue to worry fans of historical mysteries for a long time.