How well did the Tsarist regime deal with the difficulties of ruling Russia up to 1914?

It was one of the most powerful nations, but lacked economy and was actually a century behind the other European nations. Russia was about to enter WW I which costed it even more money. To show how behind Russia was at this time, some battalions had to use muskets. Oh..and for some of the other questions that were on here...The capital of the Russian empire was Petrograd, the farthest east russia expanded was actually far west, they took over Alaska and owned it until the U.S. bought it in 1867. And the last scribe family of the Russian Court was the Bartkovicz family. it was pronounced biertkovich i think. and the Russian empire was big enough to put over 3 united states in it.