The Provisional Government is in crisis. Alexander Verkhovsky, the Minister of the Military who advocated signing a peace treaty with Germany, has resigned.
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The Bolsheviks formed the Military Revolutionary Committee in Petrograd to control the units of the Petrograd garrison. Soldiers don’t trust the Provisional Government and refuse to go to war.
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Germans have captured the Moonsund Isles in the Baltic Sea and are getting closer to Petrograd. Rumor has it; evacuation of the capital might begin.
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Shortages of fuel and provision continue in Russia.
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Bolsheviks are openly calling for armed insurrections in Moscow and Petrograd
01:55
Additional troops are summoned to guard the Winter Palace
05:30
Printing works "Trud" is destroyed. The new issue of the paper "Rabochiy put'" is confiscated
08:45
The Military Revolutionary Committee puts the Petrograd garrison on standby
09:50
Bolsheviks take back their printing works
11:55
The 1st Petrograd Women’s Battalion arrives at the Winter Palace
12:51
Kerensky calls for an immediate decimation of Bolsheviks
13:30
Petrograd workers are taking up weapons
15:00
Government troops are raising bridges in Petrograd
16:10
Vehicles are requisitioned in the streets
16:30
Lenin calls for an immediate uprising
17:10
Bolsheviks are in control of the Central Telegraph
19:05
Trotsky: "This government has lost everything: support, authority, legitimacy, moral compass."
20:30
The Military Revolutionary Committee summons the Baltic fleet sailors to Petrograd
20:35
The pre-parliament fails to support Kerensky
21:30
Bolsheviks install outposts by the Winter Palace
22:25
Lenin arrives at Smolny
00:25
An emergency session of the Central Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet opens at Smolny
03:30
The cruiser "Aurora" has approached the Nikolaevsky bridge. It poses a direct threat to the Winter Palace
06:40
The Central Telephone station, State bank and other government buildings are taken
07:00
The Baltic fleet torpedo boats are on their way to Petrograd from Helsingfors
10:00
Lenin: "The Provisional Government is deposed."
10:45
Prime Minister Kerensky leaves Petrograd
12:40
The Bolsheviks disbanded the Pre-parliament
14:00
Minister of Social Welfare Kishkin is vested with dictatorial powers
18:50
Bolsheviks delivered an ultimatum to the Provisional Government demanding their surrender under the threat of opening fire at the Winter Palace
19:20
Minister of Transportation Liverovsky: "It's been unanimously decided not to answer the ultimatum and to stay in the Winter Palace."
19:40
Petrograd Military District Headquarters surrendered to the Bolsheviks
21:00
The Provisional Government is calling for help. They sent a radiogram asking people to respond to the insane attempt by the Bolsheviks to start an uprising
21:40
A cannon shot is heard from the "Aurora"
22:40
The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets opens at Smolny
00:20
Trotsky speaks at the All-Russian Congress of Soviets: "To those who left and who are now making those suggestions, we say: "You are pathetic, you are bankrupt, your part is over! Go back to where you belong now: the trashcan of history!"
01:00
The storm of the Winter Palace begins
02:10
The Winter Palace is taken. The Provisional Government is under arrest.
03:00
The Moscow Kremlin is taken by the Moscow Bolsheviks
03:10
The All-Russian Congress of Soviets has resumed its session. Lev Kamenev announces that the Winter Palace is taken.
03:40
The ministers are imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress
03:50
Lenin: «All power in the localities shall pass to the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies, which must guarantee genuine revolutionary order.»
04:00
Cadet squads took over the Moscow Manege and the Moscow City Duma
