Prime Minister Kerensky
appoints himself commander-in-chief in preference to General Kornilov. General Alexiev
was made chief of staff. Kornilov asked for terms; meanwhile, said Kerensky,
his orders as against the Germans should be obeyed.
Alexiev was sent
to headquarters at Moghiliev. The Compromisers in the Soviet wanted Kornilov’s
head; the Moscow Church Council was against it as not Christian. Kerensky
placed Kornilov and a few other headquarters conspirators under house arrest
instead.
Meanwhile Alexiev
was trying to persuade the big bourgeoisie to supply stipends for the
conspirators, under the explicit threat that Kornilov was in a position to
reveal their conspiratorial roles. For essentially the same reason, Miliukov dropped out of
sight; his party, the Cadets, officially explained that he had “gone to the
Crimea for a rest.”
On the same day, Kerensky
assembled the Directory he had been planning. He kept Tereshchenko as Foreign
Minister, and added a general (who had to be promoted from colonel), an
admiral, and a Menshevik.
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