The End of Tsarist Power: The February Revolution's Forgotten Spark

What actually happened in Petrograd during those eight days in February 1917 when the Russian monarchy collapsed? Most accounts race from International Women's Day to the abdication, but the mechanics on the ground were messy, contingent, and anything but inevitable. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the bread riots that became a general strike, the mutiny of the Pavlovsky Regiment, the strange role of the Petrograd Soviet, and the moment when Nicholas II's train was diverted at Pskov. They explore how a city's hunger for black bread toppled a 300-year-old dynasty, why the Duma hesitated, and how the abdication manifesto was almost never signed. Along the way, they touch on the little-known figure of Mikhail Rodzianko, the Tauride Palace standoff, and the fateful telegram from General Alekseev. A close look at the February Revolution's forgotten spark — the revolution that wasn't supposed to happen.

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