<Li> Kerensky--Krasnov uprising </Li> <Li> Russian Civil War </Li> <P> The February Revolution (Russian: Февра́льская револю́ция, IPA: (fjɪvˈraljskəjə rjɪvɐˈljutsɨjə)), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917 . </P> <P> The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (present - day St. Petersburg), the then - capital of Russia, where long - standing discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing on 23 February Old Style (8 March New Style). Revolutionary activity lasted about eight days, involving mass demonstrations and violent armed clashes with police and gendarmes, the last loyal forces of the Russian monarchy . On 27 February O.S. (12 March N.S.) mutinous Russian Army forces sided with the revolutionaries . Three days later the Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending Romanov dynastic rule and the Russian Empire . A Russian Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov replaced the Russian Council of Ministers . </P>

State any 5 events that led to february revolution in petrograd