when did the february revolution start and end
The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (present-day St. Petersburg), the then-capital of Russia, where longstanding discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing on 23 February Old Style (8 March New Style). Revolutionary activity lasted about eight days. It involved mass demonstrations and violent armed clashes with police and gendarmes, the last loyal forces of the Russian monarchy. On 27 February O.S. (12 March N.S.) mutinous Russian Army forces sided with the revolutionaries. Three days later the Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending Romanov dynastic rule, and the Imperial Russia. A Russian Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov replaced the Russian Council of Ministers.