title: Vasily Mikhailovich Vershinin − a Commissar of the Romanov Family&#x0D;and a Chronicler of the Revolution
abstract: Vasily Mikhailovich Vershinin is a little-known participant of the February Revolution in Russia. His activities in 1917 were hardly subjected to research. Meanwhile, Vershinin was a confidant of the leader of the Provisional Government, A.F. Kerensky, also he was appointed three times as a commissar to oversee former members of the Romanov family. For the first time, as a member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma, on March 7–9, 1917, he accompanied the abdicated Emperor Nicholas II 
journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University