Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bublikov

[4] Although politically conservative, Bublikov tried to convince industrialists that they should be willing to compromise with workers' demands to ensure their own continued economic prosperity.

[9] 'The old regime..." wrote Bublikov, "has proved powerless [and] the State Duma took the formation of a new government into its own hands.

"[10] This was followed by a second telegram on the same day, prohibiting trains from traveling within 265 kilometers of Petrograd, ensuring that counter-revolutionary troops could not arrive by railway.

[11] He used existing communication networks between railway stations to share information across Russia while newspapers were still censored.

[12] Bublikov was one of the four Duma members who guarded Nicholas II during his trip from Mogilev to Tsarskoe Selo in March 1917 and, as head of the Ministry of the Ways of Communication, he controlled the route and itinerary of the tsar's journey.