they found out that he died of drowning.

他们发现他是死于溺水
Anyway, his influence over the czar in a way

总之他对沙皇的影响
helped accentuate this sort of fatalism

加剧了这种宿命论
that was almost predetermined, you could say,

你可以说几乎是预先注定的
by his religious orthodoxy.

由他的宗教的正统性注定的
But if you're going to be the autocratic czar,

但是如果你想要成为独裁统治的沙皇
father of all the people,

所有子民的父亲
you don't want any political institution

你不会想要有任何
that's going to limit your will.

限制你的意愿的政治制度
Now, the Duma, the assembly,

现在国家杜马议会
had been created in 1905

创立于1905年
after the revolution--which I trust that you have read about--

在革命之后--我相信你们读到过--