Crossword-Solution: GATCHINA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Signed: ATAMAN KALEDIN _President of the Government of the Cossack Troops._ _Prikaz_ of the Minister-President Kerensky, dated at Gatchina: I, Minister-President of the Provisional Government, and Supreme Commander of all the armed forces of the Russian Republic, declare that I am at the head of regiments from the Front who have remained faithful to the fatherland.

Telegram from Kerensky to the General in Command of the Northern Front: The town of Gatchina has been taken by the loyal regiments without bloodshed.

Our troops have left Gatchina in order to avoid bloodshed between themselves and their mistaken brother-Cossacks, and in order to take a more convenient position, which is at present so strong that if Kerensky and his companions in arms should even increase their forces ten times, still there would be no cause for anxiety.

Tsarskoye Selo station was quiet, but knots of soldiers stood here and there talking in low tones and looking uneasily down the empty track in the direction of Gatchina.

After a cruel fight the troops of the Pulkovo detachment completely routed the counter-revolutionary forces, who retreated from their positions in disorder, and under cover of Tsarskoye Selo fell back toward Pavlovsk II and Gatchina.