General Alexiev
Your Majesty, I have an urgent communique. A riot in Saint Petersburg!
Tsar Nicholas II
Riot? This cannot be, we are at war! This must be some joke!
General Alexiev
No joke, sire. Workers are on strike and people are raiding warehouses. The Army refuses to open fire on them.
Tsar Nicholas II
Telegraph this to the Military Governor. All riots are to be stopped at once. Martial law is to be declared. The Duma is to be dissolved. I return to Saint Petersburg immediately.
General Alexiev
I only hope there is someone in Saint Petersburg to read our orders.
