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"Tuesday, 22nd AugustThe latest news from Moscow and Petrograd says the rioting has relaxed somewhat, but there are outbreaks of violence among the workers in the large factories and mills. . . . On the Russian North-West Front, the Russians, aided by Lettish troops, were unable to check a fierce offensive by Prussian forces on the Baltic seaport of Riga and the ancient city had been occupied by the enemy. . . .Wednesday, 23nd AugustRumour has it that Riga was not taken by the Germans, but given to them."
Beginnings of the entries for September 4 and 5, (August 22 and 23, Old Style), 1917 from the diary of Florence Farmborough, an English nurse serving with the Russian Red Cross, recording the news from Moscow and the capital of Petrograd. Riga was a major port with a population of a quarter of a million, and was dangerously close to Petrograd. It was taken by German forces on September 3. In the days of which she wrote, General Lavr Kornilov was plotting a military coup against the government of Alexander Kerensky. In his memoir Russia and History's Turning Point, Kerensky wrote that Kornilov had ordered Russian troops to abandon Riga preferring 'the loss of territory to the loss of the army' (p. 298).
Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, page 308, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974
1917-09-05, 1917, September, Riga, fall of Riga, Remy Russia map
