The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . is signature to his abdication. Ithad been suggested to him that he abdi-cate in favor of his young son, Alexander,but he declined, making the crown over,instead, to his brother. Grand DukeMichael Alexandrovich. Without pompand ceremony was the overthrow of themost absolute autocracy in Europe ac-complished. The Czars ultimate fate was a matter ofconjecture. For a time he was confinedin the Palace at Tsarkoe Seloe, where, touse his own words, he carried out seem-ingly his chief ambition by cultivating hisconser
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . is signature to his abdication. Ithad been suggested to him that he abdi-cate in favor of his young son, Alexander,but he declined, making the crown over,instead, to his brother. Grand DukeMichael Alexandrovich. Without pompand ceremony was the overthrow of themost absolute autocracy in Europe ac-complished. The Czars ultimate fate was a matter ofconjecture. For a time he was confinedin the Palace at Tsarkoe Seloe, where, touse his own words, he carried out seem-ingly his chief ambition by cultivating hisconservatories of flowers. Later, in fearthat the royalists would again set himupon the throne, Nicholas and his family were removed to Siberia. Presumablyauthentic reports in the summer of 1918stated that the Soviet had condemned himto death and that he had been shot. OtJierreports were that the young Czarevitch,too, had been executed. Day by day the Council of Workmensand Soldiers Deputies had been increas-ing its powers and its demands until itpractically controlled the Duma. Wlien. A Zeppelin over Paris. 134 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK the conditions of the abdication were pre-sented to those bodies, there was a stormof protest. There were many who wantedto do away even with the figurative trap-pings of royalty. So bitter wore the pro-tests that the Grand Duke refused toaccept the throne and the control passedinto the hands of a provisional govern-ment named by the Duma and the Coun-cil. Everywhere the symbols of royaltywere heaped upon bonfires in the streetsand the red flag was run up in place ofthe national standard. The thousands ofprisoners in Siberia were released, butwith Utopia in sight, the troubles of thenew government had only begun. The Council, known now as the Soviet,began to override the Duma. The Sovietwas composed of the radicals and fire-brands of the nation and they howled fora republican form of government. Thenit was that Alexander Kerensky cameinto prominence. A si
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