The Kornilov Affair fizzled out almost as soon as it started, and the march on Petrograd-really a train trip-ended with his arrest in late August. A seizure of power by Vladimir Lenin and the communists had to be prevented.
The then-capital, Petrograd, needed to be brought to heel. This meant capital punishment for rebellion. The Great War was going badly for Russia, and the sole solution, according to Kornilov, was to bring back order. The Provisional Government grappled ineffectually with economic difficulties and social unrest. (Tsar Nicholas II had already abdicated, following the February Revolution.) What happened was that Lavr Kornilov, the commander-in-chief appointed by the Russian Provisional Government’s Minister-Chairman Alexander Kerensky, decided that Kerensky lacked the nerve to confront the workers’ soviets, or councils, that were obstructing the will of the government. Indeed, Russia had more coups than any other great power in those decades. The historical mutiny in question was one of the most fumbled of the many that Russians experienced in the 20th century. Hardship and instability befell the country. In the ensuing chaos, civil war erupted and the state disintegrated and had to be rebuilt.
A mutiny in 1917, he declared, had brought unimaginable misery upon Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin-visibly shocked, pallid, and quivering-barked out a warning to the Russian people as Wagner Group troops headed north from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia toward Moscow.
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