Leaving the tsarina and rasputin in charge

• 'It's not like 1905 at all, everyone adores you and only wants bread' - tsarina
• She didn't listen to the duma at all, and chose to replace many of the representatives with rasputin friends, who were often downright scoundrels. This horrified the people and meant they completely lost respect for those ruling them
• In September 1915, the tsar went to the front line of the war. This was unwise, as not only did he leave his wife, who was tone deaf to all the revolutions, in charge, but he was now directly blamed for struggles in the war