Establishing of the Russian Provisional Government
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A Provisional Government - the highest executive-administrative and legislative body of state power in Russia between the February and October revolutions was created on March 2 (15), 1917, by agreement between the Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies and the Provisional Committee of the State Duma. Representatives of the liberal-bourgeois parties - the Cadets, the Octobrists and the Progressives played the leading role in it. The chairman of the Provisional Government and simultaneously the Minister of the Interior was appointed a large landowner Prince G. Y. Lvov - a member of the Moscow Progressive Party Committee. The Provisional Government included the leader of the Octobrist party A. I. Guchkov (military and naval minister), Socialist-Revolutionary A. F. Kerensky (Minister of Justice), P. N. Milyukov (Minister for Foreign Affairs), A. I. Konovalov (Minister of Trade and Industry), M. I. Tereshchenko (Minister of Finance).
Certain documents reflecting the activity of the Provisional Government at the first stage of its existence are included.
- Archival materials
Appeal of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma to the population and the army on the establishment of the Provisional Government
Denikin Anton Ivanovich, Lieutenant-General, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia.
Appeal of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma to the population and the army on the establishment of the Provisional Government.Information on the composition of the Ministers of the Provisional Government, the Council of Ministers and the State Duma
Information on the composition of the Ministers of the Provisional Government, the Council of Ministers and the State Duma. Film of 1917.Journals of the meetings of the Provisional Government from No. 3 to 67. Original
Collection: Journals of the meetings of the Provisional Government from No. 3 to 67. Original (1917)The journals of the meeting of the Commission for the development of instructions to the commissars of the Provisional Government for April 1917 (copies), resolutions and Provisions of the Provisional Government on local self-government
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Journal of the meeting of the Commission for the development of instructions to the commissars of the Provisional Government for April 1917 (copies), resolutions and Provisions of the Provisional Government on local self-government.Memoranda of the Department of General Affairs to the Provisional Government on the dismissal of members of the Council of the Minister of Internal Affairs, governors and vice-governors
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Reports of the Department of General Affairs to the Provisional Government on the dismissal of members of the Council of the Minister of Internal Affairs, governors and vice-governors.Memorandum of the Department of General Affairs to the Provisional Government on the Arrest of Officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Memorandum of the Department of General Affairs to the Provisional Government on the Arrest of Officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.A form signed by the chairman of the State Duma, Rodzianko, with the order of Kerensky, AF, the administration of the pavilion of ministers, where the most important persons arrested are
KERENSKY ALEXANDER FEDOROVICH, POLITICAL ACTIVITY, MEMBER OF THE PARTY OF SOCIALIST-REVOLUTIONORS, LAWYER, MINISTER-CHAIRMAN AND THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF ARMED FORCES OF THE INTERIM STATE GOVERNMENT (since May 24, 1917). 1881-1970.
Blank, signed by the chairman of the State Duma Rodzianko, with the order of Kerensky AF, the administration of the pavilion of ministers, where the most important arrested persons are.Telegrams of representatives of various organizations addressed to Kerensky AF, with greetings in connection with his election to the Provisional Government and the bulletin of telegrams of the Petrograd Telegraph Agency
KERENSKY ALEXANDER FEDOROVICH, POLITICAL ACTIVITY, MEMBER OF THE PARTY OF SOCIALIST-REVOLUTIONORS, LAWYER, MINISTER-CHAIRMAN AND THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF ARMED FORCES OF THE INTERIM STATE GOVERNMENT (since May 24, 1917). 1881-1970.
Telegrams of representatives of various organizations addressed to Kerensky AF, with greetings in connection with his election to the Provisional Government and a bulletin of telegrams from the Petrograd Telegraph Agency.Letters from former members of the Petrograd mayor's office and police, members of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes and Prince Alexander of Oldenburg, of their desire to take the oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government
KERENSKY ALEXANDER FEDOROVICH, POLITICAL ACTIVITY, MEMBER OF THE PARTY OF SOCIALIST-REVOLUTIONORS, LAWYER, MINISTER-CHAIRMAN AND THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF ARMED FORCES OF THE INTERIM STATE GOVERNMENT (since May 24, 1917). 1881-1970.
Letters from former members of the Petrograd governorate and police, members of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes and Prince Alexander of Oldenburg, about their desire to take the oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government.Telegram of members of the philistine committee of the suburb of the Moscow region on the need to resume the activities of judicial investigators
KERENSKY ALEXANDER FEDOROVICH, POLITICAL ACTIVITY, MEMBER OF THE PARTY OF SOCIALIST-REVOLUTIONORS, LAWYER, MINISTER-CHAIRMAN AND THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF ARMED FORCES OF THE INTERIM STATE GOVERNMENT (since May 24, 1917). 1881-1970.
Telegram of members of the philistine committee of the suburb of the Moscow region on the need to resume the activities of judicial investigators.Correspondence of the leaders of the nobility, the decision of the Permanent Council, newspaper clippings on the attitude of the united nobility to the Provisional Government and the situation on the ground after the February revolution
Permanent Council of United Aristocratic Societies.
Correspondence of the leaders of the nobility, the resolution of the Permanent Council, newspaper clippings on the attitude of the united nobility to the Provisional Government and the situation on the ground after the February revolution.Appeal of the Provisional Government to the people
Collection: Appeal of the Provisional Government to the People (1917)Memorandum of the Department of General Affairs to the Provisional Government on the opening of a subscription for the collection of funds for the construction of the monument of the February bourgeois-democratic revolution
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Memorandum of the Department of General Affairs to the Provisional Government on the opening of a subscription for the collection of funds for the construction of the monument to the February bourgeois-democratic revolution.Memorandum of the Department of General Affairs to the Provisional Government on the State Emblem of the Provisional Government
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Memorandum of the Department of General Affairs to the Provisional Government on the State Emblem of the Provisional Government.The main provisions of the draft law on the Economic Council and the Provisional Government Supply Committee
Collection: The main provisions of the draft law on the Economic Council and the Provisional Government Supply Committee (1917)Gazette on the issue of content to members and employees of the Legal Meeting under the Provisional Government
Council of Ministers (1905-1917).
Vedomosti on the issue of content to members and employees of the Legal Meeting under the Provisional Government.Journals of meetings of the Provisional Government on the conclusions of the ministerial meeting held on April 8, 1917. Copies
Council of Ministers (1905-1917).
Journals of meetings of the Provisional Government on the conclusions of the Ministerial Meeting held on April 8, 1917. Copies.The case of partial changes and additions to the Provisional Government's legal acts of February 8, March 15 and June 17, 1917
Council of Ministers (1905-1917). The Case of Partial Changes and Amendments to the Provisions of the Provisional Government from February 8, March 15 and June 17, 1917.On the appointment of a member of the State Council, D. D. Grimm, as the Commissar of the Provisional Government for the State Chancellery and the institutions comprising the State Chancellery of the State Council and the Office for the Reception of Reque
State Chancellery of the State Council.
Affairs of the Department of Personnel and General Affairs about the appointment of a member of the State Council of D. D. Grimm as the Commissioner of the Provisional Government for the State Chancellery and the institutions under the State Chancellery of the State Council and the Office for the Reception of Requests.By correspondence of the Provisional Government Commissioner for the State Chancellery
State Chancellery of the State Council.
Affairs of the Department of Personnel and General Affairs by Correspondence of the Provisional Government Commissioner for the State Chancellery.Correspondence with the Minister of the Interior, the Military Ministry, the General Staff, the Zemsky Union, the provincial commissars and other institutions and organizations on the cases of dismissal of the factory administration by the workers' commit
Department of General Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior of the Provisional Government.
Correspondence with the Minister of the Interior, the Military Ministry, the General Staff, the Zemsky Union, the provincial commissioners and other institutions and organizations on the cases of the dismissal of the factory administration by the workers' committees and their taking over the management of the factories in their own hands, the moral disintegration in the army, employees of the heads of local postal institutions and other matters.Order of the Navy and the Navy for the issuance of wages to factory workers in the naval department during the stoppage of plants in the days of the February bourgeois-democratic revolution (typewritten copy) and the secret circular of the Office of the M
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Order for the Navy and the Navy for the issuance of wages to workers in the naval department during the stoppage of plants during the February bourgeois-democratic revolution (typewritten copy) and the secret circular of the Office of the Meeting on Maritime Transport on the procedure for issuing documents of persons sent abroad through England.Transmitting relations to the statements of various persons sent to the ministries, provincial and district commissars about the cutting of the forest by the peasants, on the protection of the landed estates, on the abolition of the requisition of factori
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Translucent relations to statements of different persons sent to ministries, provincial and district commissars about the cutting of forests by peasants, the protection of landed estates, the abolition of the requisition of factories and other issues.Correspondence with the Moscow Provincial Commissar and the Chief Procurator of the Synod on taking measures for the preservation of the Troitsko-Sergiyeva Lavra
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Correspondence with the Moscow Provincial Commissar and the Chief Procurator of the Synod on taking measures for the preservation of the Troitsko-Sergiy Lavra.Information on the personnel of the central institutions and departments of the Provisional Government
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Information on the personnel of the central agencies and departments of the Provisional Government.Circulars of the Department of General Affairs for March-June 1917
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Circulars of the Department of General Affairs for March-June 1917Bulletin No. 1 of the Department of General Affairs for April 14, 1917 and information sheets of the Department of Local Government Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for April-September 1917.
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
Bulletin No. 1 of the Department of General Affairs for April 14, 1917 and information sheets of the Department of Local Government Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for April-September 1917 - Press coverage of the actions of the Provisional Government
Written from the newspaper "Military Herald" on the assumption of the appointment of the Minister of War appointed by the Provisional Government
Denikin Anton Ivanovich, Lieutenant-General, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia.
Written from the newspaper "Military Herald" on the assumption of the appointment of the Minister of War appointed by the Provisional Government.Cuttings from the newspaper "Bulletin of the Provisional Government" for 1917. March, April. Part 1
Print reviews, extracts and cuttings from print (collection).
Cuttings from the newspaper "Bulletin of the Provisional Government" for 1917. March, April. Part 1.Действия правительства. От Временного правительства. «Граждане!». Состав правительства и др. 6 марта (сканы 5-6) Действия правительства. Воззвания Временного правительства: К населению, армии и флоту. 9 марта (сканы 9-10) Действия правительства. От Временного правительства. 8 марта (скан 11)Cuttings from the newspaper "Herald of the Provisional Government" for 1917. March, April. Part 2
Print reviews, extracts and cuttings from print (collection).
Scraps from the newspaper "The Herald of the Provisional Government" for 1917. March, April. Part 2.От исполнительного комитета Государственной Думы. Состав Временного правительства и др. (скан 4)
Циркулярная телеграмма председателя Совета министров (скан 4)
Разнообразные приказы по министерствам и др. (сканы 4-5)Cuttings from the newspaper "Herald of the Provisional Government" for 1917. March, April. Part 3
Print reviews, extracts and cuttings from print (collection).
Scraps from the newspaper "The Herald of the Provisional Government" for 1917. March, April. Part 3.Петроград. Административные известия. О вступлениях в должность (сканы 7-8) - Photographs
Meeting of the Provisional Government in Petrograd
Meeting of the Provisional Government in Petrograd. Petrograd, March 1917.Members of the Provisional Government during the break of the meeting
Members of the Provisional Government during the break of the meeting. Petrograd, 1917.Provisional Government. First Provisional Government. From left to right top row: MI Tereshchenko, AI Shingarev, GE Lvov, AF Kerensky, AI Konovalov; lower row: AA Manuilov, PN Milyukov, AI Guchkov, NV Nekrasov, VN Lvov
Provisional Government. First Provisional Government. From left to right top row: MI Tereshchenko, AI Shingarev, GE Lvov, AF Kerensky, AI Konovalov; lower row: AA Manuilov, PN Milyukov, AI Guchkov, NV Nekrasov, VN Lvov.Prime Minister of the Provisional Government GE Ye. Lvov accepts a parade of troops
The Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, G. Ye. Lvov, takes a parade of troops. Petrograd, 1917.Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky, Minister of Justice. Member of the Provisional Government. (Socialist)
Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky, Minister of Justice. Member of the Provisional Government. (Socialist).Minister of Agriculture A. I. Shingarev
Minister of Agriculture A. I. Shingarev.State Comptroller I. V. Godnev
State Comptroller I. V. Hodnev. - Research works
October Revolution
Alekseev, Sergei Alexandrovich (1878-). October Revolution. Moscow: The Young Guard, 1929; Leningrad.Часть 1 «Февральская революция-предтеча октября». Главы «Двоевластие: Временное правительство и Советы»; «Мелкобуржуазная демократия и партия пролетариата» (сканы 18-29)
Responsibility of ministers under tsarism in revolutionary Russia
Voitinsky, Vladimir Savelievich (1885-1960). The responsibility of ministers under tsarism in revolutionary Russia. Petrograd: The Book, [1917].The Provisional People's Government
Provisional people's government. Moscow: the publication of T. ID Sytin, 1917.