The workers of
the Vyborg district, firmly with the Bolsheviks, establish patrols of the Red
Guards in the neighborhood and acquire the keys to the drawbridges over the
Neva. They were running the district committee of the party, the district
soviet for Vyborg, and a unit of the Bolshevik Military Organization from a
house on Samsonevsky Prospect. Soon they began requisitioning automobiles and
medical supplies.
The British
ambassador having expressed alarm about information indicating the imminence of
an insurrection, Foreign Minister Tereshchenko replied that “Nothing of the
kind” would happen. Kerensky, for his part, believed the reports
of General Polkovnikov. This just meant that the tricks he had up his
sleeve would prove more provocative than effective.
Orders to the
garrison to make patrols were being obeyed – after receiving the sanction of
the Military Revolutionary Committee – zealously. It is pretty easy to guess
which side the patrols were looking out for and reporting to.
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