In the Hallways of the Tauride Palace during the February Days of 1917: Memoirs of a Veteran Staffer of the Duma Chancellery А. А. Kondrat’ev

This publication presents an autobiographical account of the February Days in Petrograd by a long-standing mid-level staffer Duma Chancellery, Aleksandr Alekseevich Kondrat’ev (1876–1967). The author spent first days Revolution inside Tauride Palace and diligently recorded his impressions, some which he also shared letters to contemporaries. Later, systematized what had remembered turned it into cohesive narrative published below. His reflections on revolution’s key moments offer unique perspective well-informed insider who at same time remains detached from party politics allegiances. It is Palace, its offices hallways that witnessed meteoric rise (and soon, precipitous downfall) propertied but nevertheless revolutionary Fourth Duma, as well breakdown old political social order. testimony augments established views attitudes behavior contemporaries caught up whirlwind. Of special interest author’s about fellow Chancellery staffers — unlike insurgents politicians flocked headquarters wake unprecedented popular uprising engulfed capital city came 27 fulfill their bureaucratic duty, ensure orderly functioning apparatus. text below supplemented textual contextual annotations incorporating most up-to-date scholarship.