[2] Following the overthrow of the monarchy in the February Uprising, on 25 June of the same year, the Moscow City Duma held its first elections.

However, due to the complicated internal and external political situation, and delays in the regulatory framework, the elections were postponed.

By the end of October 1917, legitimate local self-governing bodies were formed in Moscow and the province as a result of democratic elections.

The chief of the Kremlin Arsenal, Colonel Viskovsky, obeyed the request of the Military Revolutionary Committee to arm the workers.

1500 rifles with cartridges were issued, but the troops could not be deployed elsewhere, since detachments of junkers blocked departures from the Kremlin.

On 27 October, officers in Moscow who were ready to resist the Bolshevik uprising gathered in the Alexander Military School .

Sergei Prokopovich, the only minister of the Provisional Government who was still available, arrived in Moscow on 27 October to organize resistance against the Bolsheviks.

At 18:00, Ryabtsev and the Public Security Committee established by Moscow City duma, having received confirmation from the Stavka of the Supreme Commander on the desertion of troops at the front and information about the movement of troops under the leadership of Alexander Kerensky and Pyotr Krasnov to Petrograd, declared the city to be under martial law and presented OM Berzin and the Moscow Military-Revolutionary Committee with an ultimatum: to dissolve the Military Revolutionary Committee, surrender the Kremlin and disarm revolutionary-minded military units.

[10] On the same day, the Junkers attacked a detachment of "Dvintsi" soldiers, who had tried to break through to the Moscow City Council.

Not knowing the actual situation and having no connection with the Military Revolutionary Committee, Berzin decided to surrender the Kremlin.

According to the official Soviet version, based on the stories of the surviving soldiers of the 56th Regiment, after the captives surrendered their weapons, they were shot from small arms and machine guns trying to flee.

Knowing nothing, we did so and saw that our "guests" came to us-the company of the cadets, the same armored cars that we did not let into the Kremlin last night, and one three-inch gun.

[12] According to the recollections of the Junkers involved in the Kremlin's seizure, the surrender of the Kremlin was a tactical move in which the soldiers of the 56th Regiment attempted to drive the Junker Companies into a trap, which resulted in mass slaughter:On the Senate Square was the whole regiment, in front of which was thrown a heap of weapons which they were handing over.

It turns out that the plan for the 56th Regiment was as follows: letting a small number of Junkers into the Kremlin and, apparently, obeying them, at the signal to rush and destroy them; The soldiers who fled to meet us were supposed to pick up weapons in the barracks and attack the cadets.

In addition, supporters of the Provisional Government gained access to weapons stored in the Central Arsenal in the Kremlin.

At the call of the MC of the RSDLP(b), the Military Revolutionary Committee and trade unions in the city, a general political strike began.

[10] From 28 to 31 October, soldiers of the 193rd Infantry Regiment took part in the seizure of the Bryansk railway station, the Provision warehouses in battles at the Ostozhen positions, and stormed the headquarters of the Moscow Military District (7 Prechistenka Street).