The Petrograd correspondent of the Times says in Thursday's paper
that General Russky is believed to have been the principal person who persuaded the Tsar not to attempt to suppress the Revolution. The Tsar unexpectedly came to Pakoff, where General Russky was, and announced that he was ready to allow the creation of a responsible Ministry. General Russky knew that this compromise—for such it wee--came too late. He had long conversations by telephone with M. Rodzianko (the President of the Dunn.) and the commanders on other fronts, and as a result he saw that nothing but the Tsar's abdication would meet the situation. He undertook to make this decision known to the Tsar in the presence of certain Generals. The Tsar agreed that he must abdicate, but wished to do so in the presence of M. Rodzianko. M. Rodzianko could not leave Petrograd, but some other members of the Duma arrived and told the Tsar that his own bodyguard had revolted. The Tsar, who had been " extremely nervous," became inattentive after hearing this decisive fact, and shortly handed over his Act of Abdication—which he had already drawn up.
