MRC commissars Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko and Grigory Chudnovsky encounter Head of the Winter Palace security Palchinsky, who is immediately arrested.
"In the name of the Military Revolutionary Committee, I pronounce you arrested!", I say. "Provisional Government members surrender to avoid bloodshed", answered Konovalov.
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko appoints Grigory Chudnovsky supervisor of the Winter Palace and orders to only leave loyal sentries in the building.
Comrades, please remain calm! All Provisional Government members are arrested. They will be put in the Peter and Paul fortress. I will not allow any violence. Remain calm!
Lenin decrees to form a field headquarters to oversee the final part of the insurrection. It includes Nikolai Podvoysky, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Grigory Chudnovsky, Konstantin Eremeev.
Antonov-Ovseenko of the Field Staff arranges with the crew of the Cruiser “Aurora” for a number of blank shots to be fired, which will serve as a signal for the storming of the Winter Palace.
We are protecting the revolutionary order; we are taking necessary measures to prevent the gathering of the Soviets from being disrupted and to prevent the Inaugural meeting from being disrupted. We are fulfilling the will of the revolutionary Soviet; we are moving forward, introducing revolutionary order and nearing the moment when Soviet authority will disarm the counter-revolution, crush its resistance and cement the triumph of revolutionary strength!
Send out the charter.
We wait. The task has been given to all. The password and alarms have been set. Our signal of action - a telegram addressed to me from Petrograd, signed by Antonov-Ovseyenko: “Send out the charter.” See more