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October 2nd.

That afternoon, when the blood on the Hermitage Square and in the streets had not yet cooled, in the factory area, the workers' pickets set up barricades, and in the face of the bloody massacre, the workers, who had lost their relatives and friends, no longer had the respect for the Tsar, and in the shouts and agitations of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the people shouted slogans and shouted: "The Tsar has beaten us, now we will fight back!" ”。

The workers built barricades and cut off the factory area from the city, as if by magic, the Socialist-Revolutionaries armed tens of thousands of workers, and even the railway workers drove a train full of weapons from Tula into the factory area to support their workers.

In the face of tens of thousands of armed workers, the police and army on guard in St. Petersburg tried several times to storm the factory area, but their attacks were repulsed, at first, they thought that the workers only had some shotguns - intelligence showed that the workers had robbed the shotgun shop, but who would have thought that on the streets, they even encountered the workers' artillery.

While the workers' pickets resisted, the first workers' soviets were born in the factory districts, and under the organization of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the workers' soviets took over the entire factory districts, and by the night the workers' soviets had formed an army of more than sixty men.

The strike and resistance of the workers in the factory area were also supported by the railway workers, and on the same day, the railway workers of St. Petersburg also launched a general strike, and then the shipping workers joined in the general strike, and the whole of St. Petersburg became a "lonely fortress" under the planning of the workers' Soviets.

On this day, St. Petersburg lost its land and water communications, lost its electricity supply, and even more fatally, lost its food - because of the cut off of transportation, St. Petersburg was in a situation of short-food on the third day of the uprising, which of course had nothing to do with the workers, who could still transport food from other regions by water.

However, in the cities of St. Petersburg, the food crisis is getting worse. On October 4th, the weather was fine and the gunfire that lasted for two days seemed to have died down for a while, and today it seemed that there was news that the government was considering negotiations with the workers' Soviets, and of course, there was also news that the government was sending troops, but this did not seem to mean much to the ordinary people of Petersburg, who were more concerned about food than this news - not only had the price of bread risen in the last two days, but also, and worse, you never knew when it would be sold out. Buying bread has become a priority for almost every civilian family, after all, no one wants to go hungry.

At noon that day, the women, who had been waiting in line outside the bakery for hours, could no longer hold back the anger in their hearts, and when they heard that the bread in the shop was gone, they immediately burst into an unprecedented rage, and the angry women rushed into the bakery and looted what little bread was left, while many more organized a demonstration of their own accord - just like the workers had done two days earlier.

In just an hour or two after the march of these ordinary housewives, thousands of people gathered in the city, shouting:

"Ask for bread!"

"Peace!"

They shouted slogans as they crossed the Neva Bridge to the city council to fight for food and vent their grievances.

When the workers revolted, when the citizens mostly chose to stand by. Bread, this humble little thing, became the fuse of this revolution. Women became the vanguard of lighting the fuse of the revolution. A revolution that everyone had expected has erupted in an unexpected way!

At the beginning, the police in St. Petersburg were still in control of the situation in the face of thousands of demonstrators. In the afternoon, however, tens of thousands of long-starved women, who had been waiting in line for a long time, but who had been scolded by their husbands for the lack of bread, took to the streets.

Faced with this situation, the revolutionaries in the city of St. Petersburg immediately made a decision - to hold a mass meeting and lead the marketmen to march through the streets singing revolutionary songs, in the midst of which the looting was carried out, except for a few bakeries in the city. But on the whole, the day was spent peacefully. Despite being spent in peace, everyone knows that the storm of revolution has come!

"A revolution is brewing!"

When the procession, waving red flags and singing revolutionary songs from the previous revolution, passed the British Embassy in Russia, the ambassador to Russia immediately sent such a telegram to London. In fact, the same telegrams were sent from the embassies of various countries in Russia, and at this time, any diplomat noticed the drastic changes in the domestic situation in Russia.

"Now Russia is losing control!"

Almost everyone has seen the fact that the Russians have lost control of the capital - and that on the outskirts of the city, an insurrectionary army of more than 100,000 men is brewing a new uprising. And in the interior of the city, tens of thousands of people without bread, encouraged by the workers, launched new marches.

The next day was Sunday, which was not supposed to be a day of work, as was customary, but an emergency meeting of government officials was held, at which they continued to discuss the immediate problems of St. Petersburg, the riots of the workers, and the supply of goods within the city. Especially the problems of bread and fuel supply in the city, which naturally brings us to the march in St. Petersburg, but everyone knows that if you want to solve the parade, you have to solve the problem of bread. However, there was no agreement on how to solve the problem of bread.

It wasn't until the meeting was dismissed that the officials were shocked to find that they could no longer go home. All the main streets of St. Petersburg have been blocked by demonstrators, who have reached 200,000 people. And in this situation, almost immediately thought of the Cossack cavalry, with the help of this army loyal to the tsar, to maintain order in the capital.

This was a natural reaction, but at this time they made a fatal mistake - to draw Cossack cavalry from the front line of the besieged factory, since they had almost no troops at their disposal. At the time when the authorities immediately sent Cossack cavalry to maintain order. Faced with the withdrawal of the Cossack cavalry, the demonstrators gathered from the Vyborg district and marched towards the city center, where the demonstrators met the Cossack cavalry in a narrow place.

In the face of the marching people, unlike two days ago when they were whipping with their horses, today they are completely different people, and the officers first rush into the ranks of the masses with straight faces, and ride their horses to open the way in front. The cavalry behind them carefully followed the passage opened by the officers and passed in columns. This is not the usual way to disperse a crowd! The demonstrators saw that some of the Cossack cavalrymen were still smiling, and some were winking at the crowd in a friendly manner.

This discovery shocked everyone.

The Cossack cavalry, which had always been at the vanguard of the suppression of demonstrations, did not wave a whip at them! The Cossack cavalry, who had always been loyal to the tsar, also understood the mood of the population! In fact, the crushing defeat in the army also shocked these belligerent Cossacks, who also did not want to become cannon fodder, and of course they were even more tired of not being able to taste the fruits of victory.

In the last two days, there have been revolutionaries in their camps, preaching to them and urging them not to shoot at the workers, but in fact the reason why the gunfire has become more and more sparse in the past two days is partly due to a certain consensus between the soldiers and the workers - not to tear each other apart.

Now, when these Cossacks entered the city on horseback, their changes only made the demonstrators more confident in communicating with them and more courageous in their steps. In the same way, the courage shown by a handful of soldiers infected the Cossacks, and the blinking one found an imitator.

No matter what the officers ordered, these Cossack cavalrymen just did not disperse the masses. The crowd gave them a friendly shout, and they smiled good-naturedly. Individual Cossack cavalrymen also answered the questions of the workers and communicated with them. The boundaries between the repressors and those repressed have been broken. Faced with this situation, the Cossack cavalry officers could only abandon the idea of dispersing the population and ordered the Cossack cavalry to cross the streets with horseback and prevent the demonstrators from going to the city center. The Cossack cavalry was ordered to stand in a horizontal column, but they did not prevent the workers from getting under the belly of the horse.

On this day, citizens and employees who were constantly watching joined the demonstration procession, and they broke through the obstacles in various ways, and tens of thousands of people rushed into Lijiein Street. On Vasilyev Island, university students unite with workers. Crowds demonstrated at the Kazan Bridge, Nevsky Prospect, Suvorov Prospect, Lydein Prospect and Znamensky Square, where the demonstrators snatched the tram driver's keys from the tram driver, the streets were littered with messy barricades, and some shops in the natural rich areas were beaten, smashed and looted by the so-called "revolutionary masses".

After the demonstrations broke out, the small business owners who rushed to the door to "demand their support for the revolution" and feared that their shops would be attacked could only plant red flags in front of their doors according to the demands of the revolutionaries, and then provide free food and drinks to the participants in the demonstrations, so as to avoid being smashed and looted by the revolutionary masses.

The Tsar, who had knowledge of the situation in the capital, gave the commander of the St. Petersburg garrison a stylized edict to quell the unrest as much as possible, which was only a small part of his full-day work. On this day, he was still immersed in an inexplicable sadness, he did not know how all this was, and he did not even know how to deal with the predicament in front of him - the Russian army suffered an unprecedented defeat, the navy was defeated, hundreds of thousands of troops were captured, and even in Nizhny Udinsk, the army was most likely unable to stop the Chinese attack, and in St. Petersburg, instigated by Chinese spies, the citizens also launched a riot against him, and for the young Tsar Mikhail II, it all came so suddenly, So much so that he simply couldn't judge what a rational choice was.

In the end, he could only rely on the ministers around him, and his most trusted Count Witte was not in St. Petersburg - the naval defeat made Witte have to urgently go to France to appease Russia's biggest financier, after all, Russia wants to continue the war without French loans. The other ministers were helpless in the face of the workers' riots, and only insisted that this was a conspiracy of the Chinese.

In the face of the conspiracy of the Chinese, then there is only one solution to the problem - suppression!

After receiving the Tsar's order, the commander of the St. Petersburg garrison issued a circular warning the population not to take to the streets in recent days, and that social order must be restored, otherwise the government would be forced to restore order to the prime minister by force. They believed in the deterrent effect of force on the Russian people, and he had seen too many protests of all kinds. In fact, Russia has a wealth of experience in suppressing popular movements, and they have suppressed popular uprisings and demonstrations in Poland, Finland, Ukraine and other places, and have succeeded again and again.

Now, it is just one of many "popular riots".

Based on past experience, the St. Petersburg garrison command mobilized only the police of the capital on the first day. After the police mobilization failed, the next day they moved the cavalry into the streets. Under the influence of the news of the defeat in the war and the endless contradictions in the country, it was indeed a matter of time and how much force to use to suppress the popular movement, and for the commander of the St. Petersburg garrison, the decision he could make depended on the development of events.

And the government's wait-and-see attitude in the first two days. It objectively aroused the revolutionary enthusiasm of the people, and in the process one discovered the sight of a lifetime - bonfires were lit everywhere in the streets and squares, and the workers sat around them - there were no police!

Until late at night, there were demonstrations on Nevsky Prospect by people who had been operating underground. They took to the streets and made impassioned speeches in front of the crowd.

On 7 October, the popular movement continued to rise throughout the city, with even small and medium-sized enterprise workers joining the march. The mass of marches and demonstrations reached 300,000 people, planned and led by the social revolutionaries. Riots continue in the city, and the mood of the people is also getting higher and higher. The demonstrators shouted slogans that read "Russian Socialist-Revolutionary" and "Down with the war!" Red flags with the words "and so on."

The Socialist-Revolutionaries were Ulyanov's newly formed government of "professional revolutionaries" and were based mainly on the urban working class and the lower classes. A political party with the realization of the proletariat as its party program. They advocated the overthrow of tsarism by revolution, and the leader of the last revolution was none other than the Social Revolutionaries. At this time, for the working masses, they chose to express their uncompromising attitude towards the "tsarist dictatorship and dictatorship" in a fighting mood.

The warnings of the St. Petersburg garrison command did not have any effect, and the gathered crowd was forcefully dispersed by the police, and the demonstrators responded with stones. At the same time, the revolutionaries mixed with the procession, in order to agitate the people, began to preach "The Cossacks promised not to shoot", and then the phrase was spread among the demonstrators.

In fact, the Cossack cavalry became more and more sympathetic to the demonstrators, and when the demonstrators clashed with the police and were driven away, the cavalry laughed as if they were laughing at the side. Even the demonstrators fled under the whipping of the mounted police, and he and several other workers fled to the Cossack cavalry, shouting:

"Cossack brothers, help the workers in their struggle for peace, and see how the Pharaohs (a slang for the police) treat our hungry workers. Please help us! ”

The Cossacks looked at each other, then whipped their horses and divided the police and the populace with their horses, although they did this to stop the mass bloodshed, but no one expected that their actions would condone the demonstrations in the capital, and even give everyone the illusion that the Cossacks had begun to fall towards the revolution!

Soon the police in the capital disappeared completely, leaving only the soldiers of the St. Petersburg garrison. The workers asked the soldiers, who had dealings with them on a daily basis, in a panic:

"Are you here to help the police?"

But the answer they got was just a crude word.

"Go away".

When questioned again, the result was the same.

Faced with this situation, the socialist-revolutionaries, who were walking underground, planned to select beautiful women from among the people, and then put them in beautiful clothes, even cosmetics and perfumes, while the women who knew the soldiers walked at the front of the ranks, and then they rushed into the line of soldiers, held the soldiers' guns in their hands, looked at them with sad eyes, and prayed to them in a sad tone:

"Soldiers, take off your bayonets and stand with us."

In the face of these beautiful women, in the face of the sad tone of the women, the soldiers were shaken in this moment. They raised their bayonets high over the heads of the crowd, the sentry lines of the infantry columns were scattered, and the soldiers were surrounded by the crowd that swarmed in, and there were arguments, accusations, and pleas everywhere.

The herd mentality of the people is fully demonstrated at this moment, when the soldiers are faced with far more popular demands than they are, the only choice they can make is to comply with the choice of the vast majority, and even the officers cannot stop it, and when some of the officers try to stop it, they are often surrounded by a group of strong workers, who will be beaten with their mouths covered, stabbed with daggers, and then dragged into the river or thrown into the alley surrounded by the workers.

It was at this time that another group of heavily armed workers - the Red Guards of the Red Workers with red flags came out of the blockaded workers' quarters - and with the help of beautiful women and citizens, the lines of the soldiers were loosened and the city was opened to the Red Guards of the Workers, and when the Red Guards of the armed men appeared in the sight of the citizens, they were immediately greeted with cheers, and the soldiers, in the face of these armed workers, were mostly looking at each other, but the citizens kept inviting them. Invite them to join the Workers' Red Guards......

On this day, the revolution swept through the city...... (To be continued.) )