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410 NOTES133134135136On that day the Duma Council of Doyens sent a telegram to thetsar drawing his attention to the critical situation in the capitaland urging immediate measures “to save the fatherland and thedynasty”. The tsar replied by sending the Duma President, M. V.Rodzyanko, a decree dissolving the Duma. By this time the insurgentpeople had surrounded the Duma building, the TauridaPalace, where Duma members were meeting in private conference,and blocked all the streets leading to it. Soldiers and armedworkers were in occupation of the building. In this situation theDuma hastened to elect A Provisional Committee to “maintainorder in Petrograd and for communication with various institutionsand individuals”.The Provisional Committee was composed of V. V. Shulgin andV. N. Lvov, both of the extreme Right, Octobrists S. I. Shidlovsky,I. I. Dmitryukov, M. V. Rodzyanko (chairman), Progressists V. A.Rzhevsky and A. I. Konovalov, Cadets P. N . Milyukov and N. V. Nekrasov,the Trudovik A. F. Kerensky, and the Menshevik N. S.Chkheidze. p. 309The composition of the C.C. Bureau in Russia on March 9 (22),1917 was as follows: A. I. Yelizarova, K. S. Yeremeyev, V. N.Zalezhsky, P. A. Zalutsky, M. I. Kalinin, V. M. Molotov, M. S.Olminsky, A. M. Smirnov, Y. D. Stasova, M. I. Ulyanova, M. I.Khakharev, K. M. Shvedchikov, A. C. Shlyapnikov and K. I.Shutko. On March 12 (25). G. I. Bokii and M. K. Muranov wereadded, also J. V. Stalin, with voice but no vote.The Petrograd Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. was formed at ameeting on March 2 (15), 1917, and was composed of all those whohad served on the illegal committees and newly co-opted members.The composition was: B. V. Avilov, N. K. Antipov, B. A. Zhemchuzhin,V. N. Zalezhsky, M. I. Kalinin, N. P. Komarov, L. M.Mikhailov, V. M. Molotov, K. Orlov, N. 1. Podvoisky, P. I. Stu0-ka, V. V. Schmidt, K. I. Shutko and A. G. Shlyapnikov, representingthe Central Committee Bureau.For the January (Prague) Conference, to which Lenin refers,see Note No. 95. p. 311This refers to the Manifesto of the Russian Social-Democratic LabourParty to All Citizens of Russia, issued by the Central Committeeand published as a supplement to Izvestia of February 28 (March13), 1917 (No. 1). Lenin learned of the Manifesto from an abridgedversion in the morning edition of the Frankfurter Zeitung, March 9(22), 1917. On the following day he wired Pravda in Petrogradvia Oslo: “Have just read excerpts from the Central CommitteeManifesto. Best wishes. Long live the proletarian militia, harbingerof peace and socialism!” p. 311See Note No. 75. p. 312Reference is to the agreement concluded on the night followingMarch 1 (14), 1917 between the Duma Provisional Committee andthe Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik leaders of the Petro-