A bit of a submission statement: I've been thinking about this in relation to the political fallout from the Australian bushfires. A lot of people are blaming the current prime minister for the fires that have devestated Australia to an extent we have never seen before. I don't think the prime minister is to blame, but much like the last Tsar of Russia he has played a truly terrible PR campaign which has allowed people to pin the blame on him.
That kind of attitude had rather tough consequences for the Russian royals, a couple of decades later.
Thanks for sharing this. I had not heard of it.
I think it's ok to blame leaders for such things. That will make them foresee and prevent those from happening, knowing they will be blamed.
In 1907, famous Russian poet Balmont wrote prophetic lines about the tzar [0] (roughly translated by me):