![]() ![]() We, God willing, will return to mother Russia.” I can’t promise when, or how, but I hold one belief. Some may say that the republican dream in Russia is dead. The republic, something that I and many others helped build like a fine statue off the blood, sweat and tears of Russia’s contributions in the Great War have been bulldozed by rabid radicals. ![]() “ The events that we saw unfold in Moscow can only be described as a tragedy. ![]() In the early hours of the 15th, Kerensky would arrive in Stockholm, Sweden where he’d make an address to both the republican loyalists with him, and the flocking Swedish journalists looking to gain answers for what was going on. Quickly packing as much as he could, he’d resign as president of the university in haste and quickly dash together with his family, and other loyalists to the republic onto a small set of ferries and loyal civilians in possession of boats and began a mass flight out of Petrograd on November 14th in what’d be known as the Republican Flight. However, when word reached him about General Denikin’s successful military putsch and Vonsyatsky’s assuming of power against the republican government, Kerensky knew he hadn’t had much time left. Once word reached him about the news from Moscow, Kerensky would make a radio address calling for unity and patriotism whilst calling for the rioting in Moscow to cease and for the law to be restored. Among the students and faculty of the university, Kerensky was considered rather dry in his speeches marking the beginning and end of a semester, but also relaxed when it came to rule enforcement.Īlexander Kerensky, former president of Russia Following the end of his term as president of Russia, he moved to Petrograd in 1927 and joined Petrograd University, becoming the university’s president in 1929. Kerensky himself was quite lucky during the events of the November Revolution. Once the most powerful and respected man in Russia for his efforts in ending the bloodshed of the Great War, land reform and creating a republic he thought stable enough now a refugee protected from the clutches of Vonsyatsky and the rest of the ruling Ryzan Clique as they settled into their new lives ruling over Russia from Moscow. That was all that Alexander Kerensky, Russia’s first and inaugural president of the republic felt as he looked out of the New York skyline, seeing the harbor that he landed in, and the Atlantic Ocean ahead. ![]()
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