> how things would have played out if they got someone exceptionally good instead of Nicholas II. It's not just the man or woman at the top who make the countr

> how things would have played out if they got someone exceptionally good instead of Nicholas II. It's not just the man or woman at the top who make the country work. Peter the Great and Catherine the Great tried to modernize. But the nobility put up a lot of resistance or simply didn't turn up for committee meetings.