The British royals were exceptionally flexible in their appreciation of new industrial, colonial, financial realities. With financial matters controlled by the parliament, the kings were already representing those People.

The Russian court was not particularly popular among the European elites ("non-cooperative" like now), hence some interesting financing of the Bolsheviks.

My Russian History Professor was Alfred Levin, PhD from Yale, studied under Vernadsky, doyen of Russian History scholars who studied in Russia before the Revolution. Levin did his dissertation on the Second Duma and was very familiar with the literature on Kerensky, who was, unfortunately, another ineffectual liberal.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."