The Committee for Salvation
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flitted to and fro, and there was furtive activity in Fontanka 6, headquarters of the Peasants’ Soviet, in a certain apartment of a huge building on the Nevsky, and in the Injinierny Zamok (School of Engineers); the Duma was illuminated…
In Smolny Institute the Military Revolutionary Committee flashed baleful fire, pounding like an over-loaded dynamo…
