The Committee of Public Salvation in Petrograd

Kerensky tried to win over the troops there, but most of them were either neutral or pro bolshevik. In the meantime, not knowing exactly what force kerensky would be able to muster, the bolshevik scrambled to defend petrograd. They tracked down a couple of regular army colonels willing to oversee the artillery placed on the polcovo heights defending the southwest approach to the city. Meanwhile, inside petrograd, the committee of salvation was doing their part to instigate an uprising that would support kerensky and krasno's invasion from the outside.