ABSTRACT
Bykhov, the new place of detention for the Kornilovist officers, was a former Catholic monastery not far from Mogilev. Denikin's staff who had been imprisoned with him when the news of Kornilov's move reached the south-western front. The conditions of imprisonment were not severe, mainly because a section of the Tekintzy regiment had taken over part of the guard duties, as at Mogilev, and the regiment's second-in-command had been made governor of the prison. The government indignantly denied that it had any intention of abandoning the capital - though this denial was almost certainly untrue - and the committee thereupon turned its attention to the possibility of engineering a military coup. Kornilov decided that it would be safest if the generals split up and made their way to the Don separately. Resistance to the Bolsheviks might be possible, but it was totally unrealistic to suggest that the Volunteers were capable of putting up any resistance to the German army.
