Kerensky in a sentence

A. Kerensky, Russia and History's Turning Point, New York 1965, p. 150. Alexandra suggested to her husband to expel Guchkov and Prince Lvov to Siberia.

A small group broke in, got lost in the cavernous interior, and accidentally ran into the remnants of Kerensky's provisional government in the imperial family's breakfast room.

At the same time, Nikolay Dukhonin was acting as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief after Alexander Kerensky fled from Russia.

Beckett, 2007. p. 526. Although the details remain sketchy, Kerensky appeared to become frightened by the possibility the army would stage a coup, and reversed the order.

By contrast, historian Richard Pipes has argued that the episode was engineered by Kerensky.

Cossacks enter Tsarskoye Selo on outskirts of Petrograd with Kerensky riding on a white horse welcomed by church bells.

Furthermore, Kerensky adopted a policy that isolated the right-wing conservatives, both democratic and monarchist-oriented.

In his attempt to save it by restoring the death-penalty, Kerensky only finished it.

Kerensky and the provisional government were virtually helpless to offer significant resistance.

Kerensky died at his home in New York City in 1970, one of the last surviving major participants in the turbulent events of 1917.

Kerensky gave an ultimatum to the rifle garrison to lay down weapons, which was promptly refused.

Kerensky narrowly escaped, and he spent the next few weeks in hiding before fleeing the country, eventually arriving in France.

Kerensky's government in Petrograd had almost no support in the city.

Kerensky was able to evade the pickets going up around the palace and drive to meet oncoming soldiers.

Life in exile Kerensky lived in Paris until 1940, engaged in the endless splits and quarrels of the exiled Russian politicians.

On 10 May ( Julian calendar ), Kerensky started for the front and visited one division after another, urging the men to do their duty.

Recognising the strength of the Bolsheviks, Lenin began pressing for the immediate overthrow of the Kerensky government by the Bolsheviks.

Shortly after the February Revolution of 1917, a group of soldiers were ordered by Kerensky to re-bury the corpse at an unmarked spot in the countryside.

The dilemma of whether to withdraw was a great one, and Kerensky's inconsistent and impractical policies further destabilised the army and the country at large.

The local Russian Orthodox Churches in New York refused to grant Kerensky burial, because of his association with Freemasonry and because it saw him as largely responsible for Russia falling to the Bolsheviks.