Russian Revolution Russian Provisional Government failed. This, in part, triggered the political transition of the October Revolution and the Civil War that followed in its aftermath. The Bolsheviks executed the tsar and his family on 16 July 1918. In early March, the Provisional Government placed Nicholas and his family under house arrest in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, south of Petrograd. In August 1917 the Kerensky government evacuated the Romanovs to Tobolsk in the Urals, to protect them from the rising tide of revolution. However, Kerensky lost control after the Bolsheviks came to power in October 1917, and the conditions of
Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy full day after the monarchy, 22 September 1792, the first day of Year One. Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy During the French Revolution, the proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy (French: "Proclamation de l'abolition de la royauté") was a proclamation by the National Convention of France announcing that it had abolished the French monarchy on 21 September 1792. The Convention's députés were instructed to put an end to the crisis that had broken out since the prevented flight to Varennes of Louis XVI (June 1791) and the bloody capture of the Tuileries (10 August 1792). Their middle-class