Video: 'The Great War episode 5 Mutiny' (March 14, 1917, at 43:11)

(Wednesday, March 14, 1917; during World War I) — Six days into the February Revolution, soldiers hostile to Czar Nicholas II, with machine guns and artillery, halted his train today about a hundred miles short of the Petrograd.

The czar’s train retreated and headed for a military base at Pskov, about 140 miles southwest of the capital, arriving there in the evening.

The base commander boarded the train and told Nicholas that he had no army there that would support “His Royal Highness.”