Tsarist Victory

Ending the war and the Revolution

 * 3 January 1905 — Tsar Nicholas II sacks Alexei Kuropatkin as the commander of the forces fighting against Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, deeming him to be incompetent and blaming him for the loss of Port Arthur. He replaced the sacked commander with Aleksei Brusilov, who was promoted from Lieutenant General to General of the Infantry.


 * 11 January 1905 — After arriving in Manchuria and inspecting his forces, Aleksei Brusilov beings planning an offensive with other commanders against the Japanese. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Sergei Witte devises a new economic plan to stimulate industrialization, but keep some elements of agrarian society.


 * 14 January 1905 —


 * 22 January 1905 — With the march of protestors to his palace, Tsar Nicholas orders his troops not to fire on the protestors but instead gives them a brief speech himself, and then takes the petition they came there to bring to him, promising he would take a look at it. The protest then disperses shortly afterward.