The Russian Diary of an Englishman —— Petrograd, 1915-1917

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ISBN: 9781330358436 出版年：2016 页码：260 Forgotten Books

Towards the end of 1916 the course cf events served to crystallise her purpose. Yielding not only to the urgent representations of the most dis tinguished and trustworthy of his own entourage, but to the earnest counsels of august kinsmen whose personal experience of constitutional kingship lent weight to their words, the Emperor Nicolas decided to grant his people a real Constitution of the Western type. To effect this object he com manded Prince Lvov to get together a Ministry and to formulate a scheme which should be pro claimed ou the Emperor's name-day, the Feast of St. Nicolas, December 6.