would have become regular citizens and wouldn't have been able to ever come back to power. Only a state overthrow could disrupt the development so unfavorable for the deputies. The February Revolution pushed the tsarist government aside. Now the members of the Duma took the chairs of ministers in the Provisional Government and controlled the election, in particular, preparation and progress. That is why historians are silent about how deputies' mandates expired, as this knowledge makes the consequent revolution look rather mercantile. Freedom fighters start looking like common careerists ready to risk the well-being of their nation for personal prominence.
Moreover, the government wasn't going to tolerate the Duma vespiary even by fall 1917. An order about the Duma dissolution was being prepared, and the new election was to be held after the victory. On February 22 (9), 1917, Nikolay Maklakov, ex-minister of internal affairs, received the Emperor's order to draft this manifest. Maklakov had been in his retirement for about 2 years after his Duma companions made him chased by the mass media and in the Duma circles. The deputies didn't like him, and he felt the same way about them. Being a minister, he regularly reported to the monarch about the attitude of the parliament leaders that was, to say the least of it, weird and adverse for the country. And it was him who Nicholas II entrusted to compile the manifest draft.
"…It is urgent that we thoroughly consider the entire plan of further actions by the executive powers to be ready for all the temporary difficulties that the Duma and the unions will definitely tangle up some of our people in after the State Duma dissolution…"[44], Maklakov wrote.
The authorities were getting ready for a resolute struggle with the exterior enemy in 1917. To that effect, it was intended to disarm the interior enemy first. None of the authorities thought or believed that "its true allies" were the real enemy of the Russian Empire…
The truth about the Russian chaos in 1917 has been lost under so many speculations and counterfeiting that it is hard to dig it out. However, we need to do it, because the scenario for ruining Russia used in 1917 was slightly changed and repeated in 1991 for the Soviet Union. And if our geopolitical opponents and orchestrators of our country's double trouble remain our "allies," the integrity and even existence of the modern Russia remains at risk. If we know the previous scenarios, we might prevent the future catastrophe…
Thousands or even dozens of thousands of scenarios for state cataclysms and revolutions have been made up during the history of the humanity. However, only several dozens of these "projects" have been a success. Revolutions as destructive as in Russia, bringing as many victims and so totally ruining the country's power have never happened afterwards. And we need to understand some things here:
• Ruination of the Russian Empire wasn't predetermined.
• The revolution wasn't inevitable.
• The operation of the British intelligence for the destruction of their opponent, Russia, wasn't a perfectly designed ingenious plan.
A great number of invisible facts, details, and contingencies had to match each other as in a puzzle. They had to coincide for our REVOLUTION to happen. In such a large-scale project many facts developed favorably for those wishing to destroy Russia and unfavorably for its people and government, Yet, don't get depressed. Every spectacular success of the Anglo-Saxons is always followed by a failure as spectacular. Russia, which seemed destroyed in 1917–1924, managed to retrieve it power. When with a sore heart we think of the year 1917, so fatal for our country, let's remember that in 1945 our tanks entered Berlin.
The main culprits behind the tragic events in Russia were Great Britain and the USA, and to a smaller extent, France. These were the countries that allied the Russian Army to fight their common enemy. An enemy can't be blamed for inciting chaos in the opponent's country to try and win the war. An enemy is an enemy, and any claims in that regard are ridiculous and absurd. However, there is no forgiveness for pseudo-friends that hug you with one hand and stab you with the other.
The next person guilty is the Russian Emperor. His particular government "genius" allowed the Russian enemies to implement their plans. It was he who had given key jobs to the people that betrayed him. It was he who made his immediate surrounding permanently allergic to himself. It was he who let his country be dragged into the World War and who sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers' lives for mythical "allied" ideals. It was he who abdicated all of a sudden, unexpectedly for both his army and his country turning the unrest of the workers and the revolt of the Petersburg garrison into the February Revolution. However, Nicholas II paid an ultimate price for his mistakes – he paid with the lives of his innocent children. Only God can judge him…
Other culprits behind the country's destruction should be named, too. Or, let's say, one culprit. This is not an organization or person, this is a social stratum. This is the Russian social elite. The revolution and everything that followed it was accurately orchestrated and supported by the intelligence services of the "allies." They were the main culprits behind what happened, but we need to understand that it was the treacherous behavior of the Russian elite that helped the "allies" to turn their ominous plans into reality. Today, when top leaders of our country call for unity, for rallying of the elite, we have to understand that it was the absence of such consolidation that had brought the Russian Empire to ruination. As the proverb goes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. It was the attempt to make the country more prosperous and to improve the Russian realities that lead to millions of victims and destruction of the country.
The policy of Nicholas II was leading monarchy to its end – this was what the other members of the ruling dynasty thought. The Tsar was steering the country to a catastrophe, leaders of most Duma parties believed. Mediocre war running ended in outrageous losses and defeats, this was what the Russian top military leaders said. Everyone saw the only way out – Nicholas Romanov had to be dismissed. No one expected that their attempts to save the country would trigger its ruination. If all these groups hadn't started "to save" the Russian Empire, it might have withstood the test of time till today!
The interior plot against the Russian monarchy started long before. Those looking for changes construed the war as a favorable opportunity they were afraid to lose. If Russia had won the war, it would have only reinforced the accursed autocracy, so they needed to seize power right at that moment and to bring this war "to a victorious end together with the allies." This was the stance of the main Duma parties, the KDs and the Octobrists, members of the so-called "Progressive Block." The plot was led by the leaders of these parties, Pavel Milyukov and Alexander Guchkov, as well as the Chairman of the State Duma Mikhail Rodzianko. High-ranking military officials also took their part in the plot – Generals Mikhail Alexeyev, Vasily Gurko, and Nikolay Ruzsky.
In 1915, the SR Alexander Kerensky decides to take some care of his health, sapped in the Duma battles. Later he became the most famous member of the Provisional Government. The future "Father of Russian Democracy" goes to a holiday resort in Finland. Let's pledge him the honor, "Soon after my return, I attended a secret meeting of the Progressive Block's leaders where it was decided to overthrow the Tsar by a palace revolution and to replace him with his 12-year-old heir Alexei, appointing Grand Prince Michael Alexandrovich of Russia as his regent."[45] The military men had their part in the coup d'état. I mean the high general officers that were dissatisfied with the Tsar's personality and his attitude in the World War. Many members of the Romanov family also craved for Nicholas to abdicate as they hoped to get better positions with the new monarch. Some members of the ruling dynasty and fans of the Republican regime didn't understand how abnormal their ideas were for those of royal descent. Just like some vegetarian lions, they dreamt of the times when everyone would be vegetarian and missed the fact that in that case they would inevitably starve themselves to death.
Freedom fighters in their white gloves during a dreadful war conspired to depose the leader of the state. Naturally, they believed there would be no blood. Imagine if the City Committee of Moscow
Diaries and documents from the personal archives of Nicholas II. Minsk: Kharvest, 2003. P. 192.
Kerensky A. Russia at Historic Turn; http://stepanov01.narod.ru/library/kerensk/chapt09.htm
