I was studying the Russian Revolution and my History teacher said that Prince Lvov ruled with Kerensky before the Bolsheviks took the power...
What is this Lvov relation with the family???
(Is he Nicholas' cousin or something like this??)
Thanks,
Anya
Prince L'vov was a well-regarded member of the Imperial Duma and a Red Cross official prior to becoming the first Prime Minister of the Provisional Government. It's a bit of a stretch to say L'vov "ruled". The Provisional Government was in power less than a year and this first PM in power much less than this. Kerensky was a minister - I believe of Justice - during the time when L'vov was PM. After his fall, Kerensky became Prime Minister.
I know of no familial relationship between Prince L'vov and Nicholas II and no personal relationship either.
Prince Gregory Yevgenevich (1861-1925)
>>Social reformer and statesman. He was...chairman of the All-Russian Union of Zemstvos. He formed a provisional government at the request of the provisional committee of the state duma Feb 1917 following Nicholas II's abdication...<< COMPANION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY by John Paxton.
However, this does not mean that Lvov was ruling Russia, so I agree with Lisa.
Herein lies the reason.
Although the Duma continued to be present, earlier Nicholas II had set a decree that the Duma no longer exsisted. So, from that point forward, the Duma was acting on it's own.
Nicholas II had given the crown to his brother Michael, therefore, the uncrown Emp. Michael I was ruler of Russia.
Meanwhile some of the rebellious Duma set up a provisional committee, who chose Lvov as it's minister to be in charge of setting up a Provisional Govt.
The uncrown Michael I was Emperor and Tsar at this time, and, was in the position to rule Russia, however, this would just be a paper rule since Michael I turned to the Provisional minister Lvov and his committee to set up an election.....
No election for the new head of the new government occurred between March to July of 1917, while Lvov and the committee churned out promises of free elections, a constitution, and abolished the secret police.... religious freedoms...
When all this was happening, The deputies of the Soviet Workers and many of their leaders were preparing for their own little revolutions....
Germany had packed up Lenin with a train load of gold had sent him back to Russia.
Back to the Provisional Govt., Alexsnder Fedorovich Kerensky, a "moderate socialist" and a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Pary, was given the post of minister of justice (Feb.) and minister of the navy (May) as a leader in the war which was still being fought, and, in July replaced Lvov as "Prime Minister".
I suppose to be more accurate, the uncrown Michael I, who had not abdicated, was withholding any active power, while waiting for the free elections [which never occured by the way] under the supervision of the Provisional Govt. Committee head by Lvov then Kerensky ....
21 Aug, 7 p.m., the Provisional Govt and order signed by Borois savinkov, "Director of the War Ministry" read:
>>To the Commander-in-Chief of Petrograd Districh. Based on the revolution of the Provisional Government an order is given to arrest the former Grand Duke Michael Aleksandrovich as a person whose activities are a thread to the defense of the country...."<< p. 327 Crawfords MICHAEL AND NATASHA.
I believe: This was the "deal breaker" between the uncrown Michael I and the Provisional Govt., who had failed to have free elections.
During Red October [o.s.]/ Red November [n.s.],the Bolsheviks seized power and established the Soviets under Lenin....
AGRBear
