Meet My Alter Ego

The character I'll be creating for my historical fiction about nationalism in the time period was originally going to be a protester who witnessed Bloody Sunday and is appalled that their own tsar, Nicolas II, who he trusted would allow this sort of terror to exist within his country when the tsar is supposed to be one with the people. However, Bloody Sunday, while an important event in terms of stages of nationalism in Russia, does not cover enough of the Great War, so my character will continue to write journal entries that provide an idea of the public's perception of Nicolas II. He will witness Nicolas II's failure in battle, and inability to deal with the declining nation by writing about how the negative effects of the nation affected his life, personally. Lack of food and the declining nation push him and those around him to stage rebellion. By this time, around mid/late 1910's, he and the public began to see him as, more or less, what he actually was: a shallow, incapable leader of such a big country.