Overnight police arrest revolutionist leadership, including Molotov, Schliapnikov,
and Zalutsky of the Bolshevik Committee. The revolution goes on without them.
Workers have
gained physical control over parts of the city; all government apparatus in
those neighborhoods, including police stations, had been abandoned. The bridges
over the Neva being blocked, workers crossed into Petersburg on the ice. Police
were firing from concealed positions.
An alarmed tsarina
Alexandra, German by birth, telegraphs her husband from the imperial palace in
Petersburg. The Minister of War considered asking for troops from the front,
but decided to use firehoses instead. That tactic was unsuccessful.
The President of
the Duma, Rodzianko, asks the head of the Council of Ministers, Prince
Golytsin, to resign. The latter responds by revealing the tsar’s undated edict
dissolving the Duma.
Some of the
soldiers, or their officers, fired on the demonstrators. Chagrined that trainees
from their regiment had done so, a company of the Imperial Guards garrison
refuses orders. This was mutiny. Meanwhile the leaders of the Vyborg workers were
discussing whether to end the strike.
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