February Revolution topples the Tsar
March 15, 1917
Bread riots in Petrograd became mutiny, mutiny became revolution. Nicholas II, off at the front, tried to take a train home and found his own generals refusing him. He abdicated in a railway siding. The Romanov dynasty, after three hundred and four years, ended with a signed piece of paper handed through a carriage window.
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