Abdication of the Tsar, February/March Revolution 1917
- took place February/March of 1917
- the 1917 revolution began (in February) with riots and strikes in Petrograd
- drove out the Tsar
- replaced with the provisional government
- led by Georgy Lvov
- the first time in modern Russia that the peasants had risen up together and gained in their minds a better good for all
‘The countryside is falling into chaos, with robberies and arson every day, while you sit doing nothing in your comfortable Petersburg office,’ one Tambov squire wrote to him in April. ‘Your local committees are powerless to do anything, and even encourage the theft of property. The police are asleep while the peasants rob and burn. The old government knew better how to deal with this peasant scum which you call “the people”.
- Tambov Squire to Prince Lvov, April 1917
- Tambov Squire to Prince Lvov, April 1917