Lavr kornilov biography for kids

Primary Sources

(1) In his book My Reminiscences of the Russian Revolution, the journalist, Morgan Philips Price described Kornilov making a speech in Moscow on 25th August, 1917.

A wiry little little man with strong Tartar features.

He wore a general's full-dress uniform with a sword and red-striped trousers. His speech was begun in a blunt soldierly manner by a declaration that he had nothing to do with politics. He had come there, he said, to tell the truth about the condition of the Russian army.

Lavr kornilov biography for kids

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Discipline had simply ceased to exist. The army was becoming nothing more than a rabble. Soldiers stole the property, not only of the State, but also of private citizens, and scoured the country plundering and terrorizing.

The Russian army was becoming a greater danger to the peaceful population of the western provinces than any invading German army could be.

(2) Harold Williams, Daily Chronicle (29th September, 1917)

The Kornilov Affair has intensi