the conspirators were in such a hurry, here is the confession of pavel nikolaevich melyukov from his colleague joseph rivenko. this letter was received by us shortly after the start of this war. note also that we could not wait any longer, because we knew that at the end of april or at the beginning of may our army had to go on the offensive. if any hints of discontent would cease , it would cause an explosion of patriotism and jubilation in the country. no revolution after. soon after the revolutionary events, when nothing could be done, the country was falling apart before our eyes, the creators of the coup realized that this was primarily their doing, instead of enthusiasm that followed, history will curse our leaders , the so-called proletarians, but... evert, one of the commanders of the western front, after all this horror was committed before his eyes, to the emperor demanding abdication, we are traitors to the oath and traitors to our sovereign, if only i could foresee the insolvency temporarily. i retell, with anxiety, i retell the events of history, that’s when our brother

when pavel nikolaevich melyukov came to the podium of the state duma. waving a stack of newspapers, ande german newspapers, he had just returned from working for the enemy in germany, this gossip was picked up by many and in the army, in the government, among officials among the intelligentsia... for many years , as they would say now, the theme of a once german princess who married the russian heir, the future emperor nicholas ii, was promoted, and during the war, it already gained absolutely terrifying features. it was alleged that there was a direct telegraph from the tsar's village from the residence of nicholas ii and his family. wilhelm was inserting himself, all the secrets, all the plans of the army and the government, reporting everything to his german relatives. assured that exactly she was the culprit of the shortage, for example , of sugar, although sugar was limited in sales in order to stop the brewing of moonshine, in russia at that time there was a prohibition law, only one thing, disgust, contemptuous disgust for the entire royal house, for the tsars. he himself appoint