ABSTRACT
On March 18th a certain Colonel Kobylinsky was summoned by General Kornilov to the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District: Grand Duke was received by Kornilov, who said bluntly: 'he have assigned Kornilov to an important and responsible position. One day at the end of March, Duke went up to the railing; the appearance of the Emperor, accompanied by Prince Dolgoruky and Derevenko, the sailor who guarded the heir, had attracted a large number of curious men-most of them soldiers-and women. He remember clearly his first interview with the former Emperor, which took place at end of March, at the Aleksandrovskii Palace. He inquired about the health of the members of the family, informed them that their foreign relatives were solicitous about their welfare and promised to transmit, without delay, any communications they might wish to send to those relatives. The miniature court, composed of the few retainers who had not deserted the former monarch, still kept up the ceremonial.
