The Third Cavalry Corps to Petrograd - The Only Emergency Threat to the Provisional Government

Only a few of the cavalrymen had any idea why they were even being ordered to petrograd in the first place. Those who did have some idea believed they were the ones being sent to defend the provisional government. After having received this absurd dressing down, the commander of the cavalry corps left his meeting with korensky,. went to a private apartment at petrograd and shot himself in the heartWith cornelof affair abruptly ended, any one who might have supported him loudly disowned him. He was peacefully relieved of command on september first and placed under house arrest. And he would remain in custody until november, when the bolshevik revolt cornelof