"[2] The adoption of the First Universal forced the Provisional Government to send a delegation of ministers Tereshchenko and Tsereteli to Kyiv.

The caretaker government and the press competed in accusations of "betrayal", "separatism", "breakthrough of the front" and other deadly sins.

After two days of debate, a compromise was found - the Petrograd ministers agreed that the Ukrainian Central Rada draft a charter of Ukraine's autonomy on the condition that it be submitted for final approval by the All-Russian Constituent Assembly.

The telegram confirmed the authority of the General Secretariat as a regional government with the expansion of its membership at the expense of representatives of minorities.

In 2017, the state level in Ukraine celebrated the anniversary - 100 years since the adoption of the First Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council (1917).

[3] Typewritten copy from the newspaper publication ("Robitnycha Hazeta") and the Universal, stored in the Central State Archives of Ukraine, f. 1115, op.