Provisional Committee of the State Duma

The Provisional Committee of the State Duma (Russian: Временный Комитет Государственной Думы) was a special government body established on March 12, 1917 (27 February O.S.) by the Fourth State Duma deputies at the outbreak of the February Revolution in the same year. It was formed under the jurisdiction of the Russian Provisional Government, established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II.

Nine members of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma in March 1917. From left to right:
Seated: V. N. Lvov, V. A. Rzhevsky, S. I. Shidlovsky, and M. V. Rodzianko (Chairman);
Standing: V. V. Shulgin, B. A. Engelhardt, A. F. Kerensky, and M. A. Karaulov.

Name	Party	Notes
Mikhail Rodzianko	Octobrist	Committee chairman
Vasily Shulgin	Progressive Russian Nationalists	Faction leader
Vladimir Lvov	Center	Chairman of Duma's faction
Ivan Dmitryukov	Octobrist	(left deviation)
Sergei Shidlovskiy	Octobrist	Chairman of Progressive Bloc, leader of left Octobrists
Mikhail Karaulov	Independent	Commandant of Taurida Palace
Alexander Kerensky	Trudovik	Executive Committee of Petrograd Soviet
Aleksandr Konovalov	Progressist
Vladimir Rzhevsky	Progressist
A.A. Bublikov?	Progressist Party
Vasily Maklakov	Kadet
Pavel Milyukov	Kadet
Nikolai Nekrasov	Kadet
Nikolay Chkheidze	Menshevik	Executive Committee of Petrograd Soviet
Vasily Anisimoff?	Menshevik	Executive Committee of Petrograd Soviet
Boris Engelgardt	Independent	Commandant of Petrograd Garrison

The committee declared itself the governing body of Russian Empire, but competed for power with the Petrograd Soviet, which was created on the same day. The Government of Golitzine as the Council of Ministers of Russian Empire retreated to the Admiralty building. The committee of the State Duma appointed 24 commissars to head various state ministries replacing the Imperial Government. According to Milyukov Chkheidze never participated in the work of the committee.

On March 15 (March 2 O.S.) the committee and the Petrograd Soviet agreed to create the Provisional Government. Many members of the committee went on to serve in the Provisional Government, while the committee continued to play an insignificant role until the Fourth Duma was dissolved on September 19 (September 6 O.S.).